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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785790103321

Autore

McFee Graham

Titolo

Sport, Rules and Values [[electronic resource] ] : Philosophical Investigations into the Nature of Sport

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012

ISBN

1-280-07946-0

1-134-33015-4

0-203-29987-6

0-203-68560-1

1-283-58499-9

9786613897442

1-134-33016-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Ethics and Sport

Disciplina

796.01

796/.01

Soggetti

Sports - Moral and ethical aspects

Sports - Philosophy

Sports - Rules

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sport, rules and values; Organization of the text; Some central ideas for this text; Hope for a philosophy of sport?; A view of philosophy?; The audience for this work; PART I Rules in explaining sport; 1 Definiteness and defining sport; The issues; Why define?; A definition (of sport) is neither possible nor desirable; Mistakenly thinking one has a definition; Rule-following and definition; The philosophical point (or lack of it) of definition; What is in common?; 2 Rule-following and formalism in sport

Formalism: explaining sport in terms of rules?Criticisms: the adequacy of formalism?; Some defence of formalism; Constitutive and regulative uses of rules; Some general considerations about rule-following; Some implications for formalism; An occasion-sensitive view of meaning and understanding; Rule-following and understanding; 3 Rule-following



and rule-formulations; Formalism extended: the idea of more kinds of rules; Alternatives to formalism - the ethoi position; Two versions of ethos account; Ethos: a normative account; Rules and the purposes of sport; More fundamental criticisms

Rules and rule-formulations4 Practices and normativity in sport; A view of practices; Ethos, practice and normativity; Customs and rules; Conclusion to Part I; PART II Rules in judging sport; 5 Aesthetic sports, publicity and judgement calls; Just about every call is a judgement call; Two kinds of sports?; What is subjectivity?; Two bad arguments for the subjectivity of judgements; Objectivity and options; Aesthetic sports: the importance of judgement; 6 Principles and the application of rules; The need to apply the rules (even for purposive sports); Some cases?; Principles and discretion

A parallel: the moral reading of the American Constitution?7 Spoiling, cheating and playing the game; Spoiling - 'legal' cheating; The spoiling example; The issue of generality; Finding the real rules?; Some other cases; Cheating and rule-following; What is wrong with cheating?; Why obey rules?; Conclusion to Part II: the moral imperative is intrinsic; PART III Rules in valuing sport; 8 The project of a moral laboratory;  and particularism; Sport's moral dimension?; Explanations and qualifications; The argument; Investigation of the premises; Particularism and moral judgement

Thinking about the moral laboratoryProblem: the moral nature of sport?; Outcomes; 9 The value of sport; Reasons for participation in sport; Normative and motivating reasons; Normative reasons, rules and sport; The persistence of value; The remaking of value-formulations; 10 Relativism, objectivity and truth; The denial of the coherence of relativism; The postmodern challenge: incredulity towards metanarratives; Understanding and the concrete; The postmodern challenge II: reason and science; One sporting world?; Conclusion: Sport, rules and philosophy; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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, inc



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Record Nr.

UNISA996385673503316

Autore

Shakespeare William <1564-1616.>

Titolo

The history of Henrie the fourth [[electronic resource] ] : with the battell at Shrewseburie, betweene the King, and Lord Henrie Percy, surnamed Henrie Hotspur of the north. VVith the humorous conceites of Sir Iohn Falstaffe. Newly corrected by W. Shake-speare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by W[illiam] W[hite] for Mathew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, neere vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe, 1613

Descrizione fisica

[80] p

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Mostly in verse.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A-K⁴.

Running title reads: The historie of Henry the fourth.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113