Sports, Virtues and Vices : Morality Plays
Mike. McNamee
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (249 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ancient rituals and modern morality plays; Part I Sports, persons and ethical sport; 1 What is this thing called sport?; 2 Sports, persons and sportspersonship; 3 Sports as practices; 4 Sport and ethical development; Part II Vicious and virtuous sport; 5 Codes of conduct and trustworthy coaches; 6 Racism, racist acts and courageous role models; 7 Hubris, humility and humiliation: Vice and virtue in sporting communities; 8 Schadenfreude in sports: Envy, justice and self-esteem. - Part III Sports ethics, medicine and technology9 Suffering in and for sport; 10 Doping: Slippery slopes, pleonexia and shame; 11 Whose Prometheus?: Transhumanism, biotechnology and the moral topography of sports medicine; Notes; References; Index. - 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 mo
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| ISBN | 0415194083. - 0415194091. - 9780415194082. - 9780415194099
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