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5 - Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2021

Stephen Mumford
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Durham University
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Sport is full from top to bottom with normative notions and judgements: the team deserved to win; a player should have given the ball back; the referee’s decision was unfair; a particular move was against the spirit of the game; an incident was deceptive, perhaps even cheating; someone did the wrong thing, or right thing; there was a good outcome. These are example of normative judgements where normativity concerns what should or should not be rather than what is. The normative, I maintain, does not merely intrude into sport. Rather, sport is an inherently ethical space, which concerns right and wrong, good and bad, and what ought to be.

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  • Ethics
  • Stephen Mumford, Durham University
  • Book: A Philosopher Looks at Sport
  • Online publication: 20 May 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992961.006
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  • Ethics
  • Stephen Mumford, Durham University
  • Book: A Philosopher Looks at Sport
  • Online publication: 20 May 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992961.006
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  • Ethics
  • Stephen Mumford, Durham University
  • Book: A Philosopher Looks at Sport
  • Online publication: 20 May 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992961.006
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