The ethics of sports : a reader /
The ethics of sports : a reader /
edited by Mike McNamee.
- First edition.
- xiv, 505 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The roots of sports ethics : games, play, sports : -- Construction of a definition / Nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon / The game game / Introduction to the appendices / Games and the good : I / Games and the good : II / Sport : an historical phenomenology / Fair contests : rules, spoiling and cheating : -- From test to contest : an analysis of two kinds of counterpoint in sport / The ends of the sports contest / Fairness in sport : an ideal and its consequences / It's not cricket : underarm bowling, legality and the meaning of life / The "hand of God"? / Spoiling : an indirect reflection of sport's moral imperative? / Bernard Suits -- Johan Huizinga -- Mary Midgley -- Bernard Suits -- Thomas Hurka -- John Tasioulas -- Anthony Skillen -- R. Scott Kretchmar -- Warren P. Fraleigh -- Sigmund Loland -- David Fraser -- Claudio Tamburrini -- Graham McFee. Part 1. Part 2. Doping, genetic modification and the ethics of enhancement : -- The athletes' viewpoint / Why not dope? It's still all about the health / Doping under medical control : conceptually possible but impossible in the world of professional sports?/ Ethical aspects of controlling genetic doping / Bionic athletes / Whose prometheus? Transhumanism, biotechnology and the moral topography of sports medicine / Cultures of equality and difference : dis/ability, gender and race : -- Disability or extraordinary talent : Francesco Lentini (three legs) verses Oscar Pistorius (no legs) / Tackling murderball : masculinity, disabilty and the big screen / Against sexual discrimination in sports / On the definition of 'woman' in the sport context / I'd rather wear a turban than a rose : a case study of the ethics of chanting / Racism, racist acts and courageous role models / Verner Moller -- Andy Miah -- Soren Holm -- Christian Munthe -- Michael J. Sandel -- Mike McNamee -- Ivo Van Hilvoorde and Laurens Landeweerd -- Michael Gard and Hayley Fitzgerald -- Torbjörn Tännsjö -- Angela J. Schneider -- Carwyn Jones and Scott Fleming -- Mike McNamee. Part 3. Part 4. Ethical development in and through sports : rules, virtues and vices : -- What moral educational significance has physical education? A question in need of disambiguation / Sport, ethos and education / Schadenfreude in sports : envy, justice and self-esteem / Athletic virtue : between east and west / The project of a moral laboratory and particularism / Commercialism, corruption and exploitation in sports : -- The degradation of sport / The moral case against contemporary American sports / Moral philosophy out on the track : what might be done? / Sport and the systematic infliction of pain : a case study of state-sponsered mandatory doping in East Germany / Sharp practice : intensive training and child abuse / Ethics and adventurous activity : -- The value of dangerous sport / Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of 'bolting' / Kant goes skydiving : understanding the extreme by way of the sublime / Can BASEjumping be morally defended? / Sacred places / David Carr -- Jim Parry -- Mike McNamee -- Heather L. Reid -- Graham McFee -- Christopher Lasch -- William Morgan -- Adrian Walsh and Richard Giulianotti -- Giselher Spitzer -- Paolo David -- J.S. Russell -- Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson -- Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza -- Gunnar Breivik -- Raimond Gaita. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7.
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2009050150
Sports--Moral and ethical aspects
GV706.3 / .E87 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The roots of sports ethics : games, play, sports : -- Construction of a definition / Nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon / The game game / Introduction to the appendices / Games and the good : I / Games and the good : II / Sport : an historical phenomenology / Fair contests : rules, spoiling and cheating : -- From test to contest : an analysis of two kinds of counterpoint in sport / The ends of the sports contest / Fairness in sport : an ideal and its consequences / It's not cricket : underarm bowling, legality and the meaning of life / The "hand of God"? / Spoiling : an indirect reflection of sport's moral imperative? / Bernard Suits -- Johan Huizinga -- Mary Midgley -- Bernard Suits -- Thomas Hurka -- John Tasioulas -- Anthony Skillen -- R. Scott Kretchmar -- Warren P. Fraleigh -- Sigmund Loland -- David Fraser -- Claudio Tamburrini -- Graham McFee. Part 1. Part 2. Doping, genetic modification and the ethics of enhancement : -- The athletes' viewpoint / Why not dope? It's still all about the health / Doping under medical control : conceptually possible but impossible in the world of professional sports?/ Ethical aspects of controlling genetic doping / Bionic athletes / Whose prometheus? Transhumanism, biotechnology and the moral topography of sports medicine / Cultures of equality and difference : dis/ability, gender and race : -- Disability or extraordinary talent : Francesco Lentini (three legs) verses Oscar Pistorius (no legs) / Tackling murderball : masculinity, disabilty and the big screen / Against sexual discrimination in sports / On the definition of 'woman' in the sport context / I'd rather wear a turban than a rose : a case study of the ethics of chanting / Racism, racist acts and courageous role models / Verner Moller -- Andy Miah -- Soren Holm -- Christian Munthe -- Michael J. Sandel -- Mike McNamee -- Ivo Van Hilvoorde and Laurens Landeweerd -- Michael Gard and Hayley Fitzgerald -- Torbjörn Tännsjö -- Angela J. Schneider -- Carwyn Jones and Scott Fleming -- Mike McNamee. Part 3. Part 4. Ethical development in and through sports : rules, virtues and vices : -- What moral educational significance has physical education? A question in need of disambiguation / Sport, ethos and education / Schadenfreude in sports : envy, justice and self-esteem / Athletic virtue : between east and west / The project of a moral laboratory and particularism / Commercialism, corruption and exploitation in sports : -- The degradation of sport / The moral case against contemporary American sports / Moral philosophy out on the track : what might be done? / Sport and the systematic infliction of pain : a case study of state-sponsered mandatory doping in East Germany / Sharp practice : intensive training and child abuse / Ethics and adventurous activity : -- The value of dangerous sport / Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of 'bolting' / Kant goes skydiving : understanding the extreme by way of the sublime / Can BASEjumping be morally defended? / Sacred places / David Carr -- Jim Parry -- Mike McNamee -- Heather L. Reid -- Graham McFee -- Christopher Lasch -- William Morgan -- Adrian Walsh and Richard Giulianotti -- Giselher Spitzer -- Paolo David -- J.S. Russell -- Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson -- Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza -- Gunnar Breivik -- Raimond Gaita. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7.
041547860X 9780415478601 0415478618 9780415478618
2009050150
Sports--Moral and ethical aspects
GV706.3 / .E87 2010
175