Sports, Virtues and Vices: Morality PlaysRoutledge, 21 մյս, 2008 թ. - 248 էջ Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social significance of sport. The primary aim of Sports, Virtues and Vices is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via ‘virtue ethical’ considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece. The central theme running through the book is that sports are effectively modern morality plays: universal practices of moral education for the masses and - when coached, officiated and played properly - a valuable vehicle for ethical development. Including a wealth of contemporary sporting examples, the book explores key ethical issues such as:
Written by one of the world's foremost sports philosophers, this book powerfully unites the fields of sports ethics and medical ethics. It is essential reading for all students and scholars with an interest in the ethics and philosophy of sport. |
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Morality Plays Mike McNamee. Part I Sports, persons and ethical sport 1 What is this thing called sport? Introduction In a Part I Sports, persons and ethical sport.
... : Consider for example the proceedings that we call “games.” I mean board-games, card-games, ball-games, Olympic games, and so on. What is common to them all?-Don't say: 'There must be something 10 Sports, persons and ethicalsport.
... not make them members ofthe family. Rather it should be said that they aremem- bers of the family and they have resemblances. The 'family resemblances' idea is simply an analogy to prove that there is no 12 Sports, persons and ethicalsport.
... that all sports are games but that they are games of a particular kind. He argues that in addition to being games, there are four necessary conditions for sports that, taken together, 14 Sports, persons and ethicalsport.
... , or even in Mayan ball games for us to recognise their family resemblances and talk about them in the same breath. We may, moreover, see their codification as a particularly important conceptual 16 Sports, persons and ethicalsport.
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Part II Vicious and virtuous sport | 87 |
Part III Sports ethics medicine and technology | 163 |
Notes | 206 |
References | 219 |
Index | 232 |