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- Title
A NEW SPORT ETHICS.
- Authors
Shogan, Debra; Ford, Maureen
- Abstract
In an earlier issue of the international Review for the Sociology of Sport, Eugen König argued that doping exposes sport as an enterprise which is inherently exploitative (1995). Doping is consistent with other practices and technologies which push human limits of performance but which are arbitrarily included as part of 'pure', 'natural', and 'authentic' sport only because they are not against the rules. By circumscribing what is to count as ethical inquiry in sport within a discussion of obligations in relation to proscriptive rules, sport ethicists cannot avoid being complicit in supporting a sport culture that is often harmful to athletes. König charges that a sport ethics that concerns itself only with questions that emanate from rule breakage 'does not deserve the name of ethical criticism' and is 'a powerless protest against sport' and 'actually prevents what it pretends to intend' (1995: 256). We take König's critique of sport ethics seriously and, through this commentary, we aim to initiate a discussion about a new sport ethics that would have quite different pedagogical, political and scholarly tasks. The discussion is situated in the ethics of French intellectual, Michel Foucault, and contextualized in the proliferation of ethical concerns and debates within contemporary Canadian sports discourse.
- Subjects
CANADA; SPORTS ethics; DOPING in sports; ERGOGENIC aids; KONIG, Eugen; ATHLETES -- Substance use; SPORTS philosophy; ATHLETIC ability
- Publication
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2000, Vol 35, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
1012-6902
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/101269000035001004