The Ethics of Sport

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Robert L. Simon, SIMON

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The Ethics of Sport explores moral issues that arise in sports, especially competitive athletics, in a manner that is accessible not only to sports fans or participants but also to those critical of sports or simply interested in an introduction to the kind of moral issues raised by the practice of athletics. The issues considered range from the more abstract, such as the importance that should be assigned to winning in sports, to specific controversies such as arguments over the use of performance enhancing drugs, the nature of gender equity, and the evaluation of violence in competition. The book explores different sides of these issues and suggests reasonable resolutions to the kinds of ethical questions prevalent in the practice of sports.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-08-18
Mått218 x 145 x 17 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWhat Everyone Needs To Know®
Antal sidor294
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190270209

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Robert L. Simon is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Hamilton College. He has written widely on ethical issues is sports as well as on topics in political and social philosophy. He is a past president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport and a recipient of its Distinguished Scholar award. He also was head golf coach for 14 years at Hamilton College and his teams participated in national championships.

AcknowledgementsPrologueChapter One: The Moral Significance of SportChapter Two: Winning, Cheating, and the Ethics of CompetitionChapter Three: Health, Safety, and Violence in Competitive SportChapter Four: Enhancement, Technology, and Fairness in Competitive SportChapter Five: Competitive Sport: Education or Mis-Education?Chapter Six: Sports, Equity, and SocietyChapter Seven: Concluding Comment: The Two Sides of the Force or are Sports so Great After All?Recommended Readings and References

An easy-to-read analysis of ethics by one of the world's most highly respected sport philosophers. Simon employs a question-and-answer, conversational format, one that is peppered with interesting anecdotes. A must read for anyone interested in sport ethics. An important book that plumbs the depths of complex sport ethics questions and relates answers to everyday concerns about values, justice, and fair play. Simon puts to rest, once and for all, any claims that sport is a trivial or otherwise uninteresting phenomenon.