Introduction to Ethics
Sports and Ethics
N.P.G.Suvindu Thilakshana
Prof. Daya Edirisinghe
007-15-2055
PHI2600U
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Content
Introduction
What is Sports?
What is Ethics?
What role in Ethics in Sports?
Violation Ethical principles in sports?
Positive part of Ethics and Sports.
Why
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The main tenants are little things:
• Victory is everything
• Only deception, if you get caught
• It is the referee 's job to catch misconduct, and the athletes and coaches are not
To follow the ownership rules
• Always unscrupulous ends
Some examples of tricks are:
• forgery foul or injury
• trying to get a good start in the race
• equipment, such as a stuffed bat batting
• Covert personal foul, as in water polo players in the water caught
• Pain or knock down the opponent 's intentions Saints bounty scandal, he of the game
• use performance-enhancing drugs
• abuse or intimidate opponents
• The above qualities athlete coach, let him or her eligible to play
All these examples are more results of the game, rather than the way it played.
Ethical approach is Sports. As part of a campaign mode is to see healthy competition culture
as a means of personal honor, virtue and character. It helps between competitors and the
respect and trust of the community in the community. Dynamic goal is not easy to win, but to
win the honor, by pursuing their own best efforts.
In the Sports Ethics requires four basic virtues:
fairness, honesty, responsibility and
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