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Sports, virtues and vices : morality plays

The primary aim of this book is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via 'virtue ethical' considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece
Print Book, English, 2008
Routledge, London, 2008
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 236 pages ; 25 cm
9780415194082, 9780415194099, 9780203090107, 0415194083, 0415194091, 0203090101
183392036
Ancient rituals and modern morality plays
What is this thing called sport?
Sports, persons and sportspersonship
Sports as practices
Sport and ethical development
Codes of conduct and trustworthy coaches
Racism, racist acts and courageous role models
Hubris, humility and humiliation
Schadenfreude : envy, justice and self-esteem
Suffering in and for sport
Doping : slippery slopes, pleonexia and shame
Whose Prometheus? : transhumanism, biotechnology and the moral topography of sports medicine
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