Kinesiology 2292F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Circular Reasoning, Olympic Charter, Stout
16 Oct 2016
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It is uncertain, it either has been defined too broadly or too narrowly. Too broad: vague, ambiguous: rules to sportsmanship. Struggle for victory/fun holistic, ties back to faith and has ethical properties. The amateur does not seek a prize, they are playing for the love of the game. In 1986 the ioc charter included the word amateur, professionals could not play. Example: in a team sport, the whole team can experience this victory, national pride as well. Virtues for sportsman is singular where it is concerned with how the single individual acts. Other examples, intent to injure or running up the score, not so clear. Paradigm case of bad sport cheating. But not correct in radical separation of sports & athletics & resulting virtues pivotal, with impartial equal application of rules of the player vs. virtues of the athlete. Doesn(cid:495)t follow that their attitudes are (cid:498)correct(cid:499) Keating uses circular argument, doesn(cid:495)t say what our original attitudes to.
