Sport and moral conflict : a conventionalist theory / William J. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, William J., 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Moral and ethical aspects.

Sports.

Sports--History.

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; Rome ; Tokyo : Temple University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This book explores the dominant theories of ethics in sports, concluding that a conventionalist model is most defensible. It roots its inquiry in the collision of sporting ideologies in the early twentieth century's Olympic games where English and American ideas of sportsmanship highlighted differing approaches to fairness in sport."

Contents:

The Fight for the Moral Soul of Modern Sport: Dueling Amateur and

Professional Conceptions of Sport in the Early Modern Olympic Games, 1896-

Formalism and Sport

Broad Internalism, Moral Realism, and Sport: The Metaphysical Version

Broad Internalism, Moral Realism, and Sport: The Discourse Version

What A Conventionalist Ethical Theory of Sport Doesn't Look Like:

The Case Against Coordinating, Deep, and Constitutive (Surface) Conventions

A Conventionalist Ethical Theory of Sport

Sport, Moral Progress, and Moral Entrepreneurs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439915417

1439915415