Ethics in Competitive Sport: Beauty, Empathy, and Deliberation
Explore the ethical dimensions of competitive sport, delving into concepts of beauty, empathy, and deliberation. Should ethics have a greater role in athletic training and development, with a focus on diminishing harm and promoting sportsmanship? Dive into the nuances of competition, cheating, and sports ethics through a philosophical lens.
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A Model & A Prompt: If competitive sport is understood as a mutual quest for excellence through challenge it not only can be an activity of beauty and skill but also can represent a striving for human excellence, and in doing so it can be a paradigmatic way of respecting each other as persons, of taking our status as persons seriously. (p. 53- 54) BEAUTY EMPATHY DELIBERATION Can sport through its moral components of beauty, deliberation, and empathy diminish harm or injury? Should ethics play a larger role in developmental athletics and/or high-level athletics? In short, should ethics enter into athletic training?
Ethics in Competition: Cheating & Sportsmanship [sic] ENGL 234, Wednesday 8/31 Fair Play, ch. 3
Defining our Terms 1. SPORT (a theory of sport) conception of athletic competition as a mutual quest for excellence (p. 53) ^ therefore, morally defensible account for competition 1. BROAD INTERNALISM (the authors ethical perspective) in addition to constitutive rules of sport, there are other resources connected closely perhaps conceptually to sport that merely mirror dominant morality in society. (p. 34) in other words, sport has a logic and morality of its own & is not just a reflection of society BUT is totally an extension or microcosm [embodiment] of society [that is, sport as autonomous, kinda, but also relative epitome of sociocultural values]
Defining our Terms, cont. 3. COMPETITION (in line with mutualism) Athletic competition can and should provide benefits for winners and losers and, above all, is a significantly cooperative activity in which competitors voluntarily agree to test themselves against the challenges of their sport. (p. 52) Competitors contribute to the pursuit of excellence with each other and, thus, are facilitators rather than enemies or mere obstacles to victory. (p. 52) 4. CHEATING?
Define cheating from a cheater's perspective (violation of a public system of rules; cheater puts themselves above the rules) Cheating WRONG BECAUSE other opponents cannot reasonably accept it Intent comes into the context (cheating for one's special interest; disrespect for game & other players) Strategic fouling (embracing highly questionable tactics?) Entertainment for audience AND competitors (61) "LET THEM PLAY"--keeps game interesting (value here) Entertainment & skill connection (use cheating to one's advantage) Gotta know the skill & execution & how to break or manipulate
Sportsmanship enters into the discussion Responsibility & honorability What you're getting out of winning...? Levels of play (how can we assess this ethically as outsiders?) Media influence on sportsmanship performances? Public persona?
Memoir involves the whittling away of a whole lot of stuff that you have lived and a focusing on one slim section, full of power, that demands to be told. Lisa Dale Norton (American Author & Memoirist) Our Purpose: To begin extracting truths from sport(s) & establish the stakes of our ethical engagement. the photo you shared as raw material handful of words (5-10) from that material numbers? punctuation? Post Final Draft to website, category 6-Word Sports Memoir, by 11:59 pm on Friday 9/2
