1st Edition

Why Sports Morally Matter

By William Morgan Copyright 2006
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

When we accept that advertisers and sponsors dictate athletic schedules, that success in sport is measured by revenue, that athletes’ loyalties lie with their commercial agents instead of teams and that game rules exist to be tested and broken in the pursuit of a win, what does our regard for sport say about the moral and political well-being of our society? Why Sports Morally Matter is a... Read more
Preface  Introduction  1. The State of Play: A Genealogy  2. The Moral Case Against Contemporary Sports  3. Taking the Longer Moral Measure of Sports  4. Moral Inquiry in Sport: What Counts as a Moral Consideration of Sports?  5. A Short Moral Hisotry of America  6. A Short Moral History of American Sports  7. Progressive Sport and Progressive America: A Dialectical Summing Up

Biography

Morgan, William