Preliminary communication

Ethics and sport: whose ethics, which ethos – a prolegomenon –

Milan Hosta ; Department of the Philosophy of Sport, Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

The inability to make a distinction between the inner and the outer view, between the internal and the external values of a game leads to a misinterpretation of the ethos of a game as practice, and the ethos of the institution, which governs the practice. Unfortunately, that error has not only cognitive but far-reaching ideological consequences as well. By justifying the ethical pluralism through our discussion, we wish to point out that moral pluralism is not an apology for moral relativism. The moral autonomy of sport is trapped in the structure of the game, and is inadmissible per se, or has to be understood within the context of the distinction between the ethics of sport and sport ethics.

Keywords

philosophy; sport ethics; pluralism; ethos; sense for sport

Hrčak ID:

24838

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/24838

Publication date:

30.6.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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