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Sport, Rules and Values - Philosophical Investigations into the Nature of Sport (Hardcover)
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Sport, Rules and Values - Philosophical Investigations into the Nature of Sport (Hardcover)
Series: Ethics and Sport
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Sport, Rules and Values presents a philosophical perspective on
issues concerning the character of sport. Discussion focuses on
three broad uses commonly urged for rules: to define sport; to
judge or assess sport performance; and to characterize the value of
sport - especially if that value is regarded as moral value. In
general, Sport, Rules and Values rejects a conception of the
determinacy of rules as possible within sport (and a parallel
picture of the determinacy assumed to be required by philosophy).
Throughout, the presentation is rich in concrete cases from sport,
including cricket, baseball, American football, soccer and
ice-skating. Detailed consideration of some ideas from classics in
the philosophy of sport, especially writings by Bernard Suits and
William Morgan, contextualizes this discussion. Overall, this work
exemplifies the dependence of philosophical considerations of sport
on ideas from philosophy more generally. Thus it sketches, for
example, the contrast between rules and principles, an account of
the occasion-sensitivity of understanding, and the place of
normative and motivating reasons within practical reasoning. Sport,
Rules and Values represents a distinctive conception, both of sport
and of its philosophical investigation, which will appeal to all
those with an interest in philosophy and ethics of sport.
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