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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21464/sp34203

Between Sport and Bioethics: Grounding the Philosophy of Mountaineering

Igor Eterović orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-2232-0289 ; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine, B. Branchetta 20, HR–51000 Rijeka


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Abstract

Mountaineering encompasses a vast number of practices and it is becoming an umbrella term for a set of human outdoor practices. Although categorised as a sport, mountaineering resists to the standard definition of sport and especially to mainstream understanding of sport as a competitive activity. On the other hand, usual ethical questions concerning sports do not cover the vast majority of mountaineering practices, thus calling for a wider normative perspective – a bioethical analysis. It is argued that such an approach could ground the possibility of understanding mountaineering as a peculiar sort of sport, and differentiate its special features by using bioethical analysis. Thus, it is showed that mountaineering is a unique sport, but also that mountaineer shares and promotes a genuine life philosophy exemplifying a truly bioethical worldview. Mountaineer is guided by a unique set of core values encapsulated under something we can and should call the philosophy of mountaineering.

Keywords

mountaineering; sport; bioethics; philosophical analysis; philosophy of mountaineering

Hrčak ID:

232365

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/232365

Publication date:

20.12.2019.

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