Mike Mcnamee

Sports, Virtues and Vices (eBook, ePUB)

Morality Plays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length treatment of the ethics of sport from a virtue theoretical stance, drawing upon ancient Greek sources and culminating in a critical consideration of the promises and dangers of biomedical technology in elite sports. Written by one of the world's foremost sports philosophers, it includes a wealth of contemporary sporting examples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134649778
• Artikelnr.: 38450824

Autorenporträt

Mike McNamee is Reader in Philosophy, in the Department of Philosophy, History and Law in Healthcare, School of Health Science at Swansea University, Wales. He was formerly President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport and the Founding Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. He is series co-editor of Routledge's successful 'Ethics and Sport Series' and is Editor of the international journal Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction Ancient rituals and modern morality plays PART I
Sports, Persons and Ethical Sport Chapter 1 What is this thing called
sport? Chapter 2 Sports, persons and sportspersonship Chapter 3 Sports as
practices Chapter 4 Sport and ethical development PART II Vicious and
Virtuous Sport Chapter 5 Codes of conduct and trustworthy coaches Chapter 6
Racism, racist acts and courageous role models Chapter 7 Hubris, humility
and humiliation Chapter 8 Schadenfreude: envy, justice and self-esteem
PART III Sports Ethics, Medicine and Technology Chapter 9 Suffering in and
for sport Chapter 10 Doping: slippery slopes, pleonexia and shame Chapter
11 Whose Prometheus? Transhumanism, Biotechnology and the moral topography
of sports medicine