Sports ethics

Sports ethics is an interdisciplinary branch of philosophy and sports science . As applied ethics, it deals with the moral aspects of sport . Important topics in sports ethics are doping , fairness as well as rules and norms .

A distinction is made between sports ethics as the theory of sports moral practice and metaethics, which asks about the conditions of such a theory in general. The answer to the moral question (what should I do?) Depends for the individual on who or what one sees oneself as. Since competitive sport creates quite clear situations with its clear rules and small number of role definitions, it can also function as a model of general ethics . It is different, however, in health sports , leisure sports , senior sports , etc., where the canon of values ​​of the respective social field is also added. So is z. For example, the use of anabolic steroids in the context of anti-aging medicine is widespread, but is prohibited in competitive sports among seniors according to the rules of WADA . The conditions of sport moral practice are also not without problems. If z. As in athletes as part of the doping controls of NADA from the presumption of guilt instead of the usual else in liberal democracies presumption of innocence gone out and this is welcomed by the mass media, the question arises whether such methods of the police state to be prepared socially.

literature

• Elk Franke (Ed.): Ethics in Sport . Hofmann, Schorndorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-7780-4780-4 .
• Angela Lumpkin : Modern Sports Ethics . A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2009, ISBN 978-1-59884-197-8 .
• Claudia Pawlenka (ed.): Sports Ethics . Rules - Fairness - Doping. mentis, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-89785-306-X .
• Ommo Grupe , Dietmar Mieth (ed.): Lexicon of ethics in sport . Hofmann, Schorndorf 2001, ISBN 3-7780-8991-9 .
• Eckhard Meinberg : The moral in sport . Building blocks of a new sports ethic. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 1991, ISBN 3-89124-119-4 .

Web links

Portal: Sports Science  - Overview of Wikipedia content on Sports Science

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pawlenka 2004 p. 10
2. ^ Sports ethics. (No longer available online.) Jena University, Jena Ethics Center, archived from the original on July 23, 2012 ; Retrieved November 23, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ KO Apel: The ethical meaning of sport in a universalistic discourse ethic, in: Elk Franke (Hrsg.): Ethical aspects of competitive sport . Clausthal-Zellerfeld: DVS 1988, pp. 105-134
4. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Cui bono? On the effect of sports journalism. In: Arnd Krüger, Swantje Scharenberg (ed.): How the media prepare sport - selected aspects of sport journalism. Tischler, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-922654-35-5 , pp. 24-65.