Philosophy 2079F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stamp Collecting, Motivation

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 2079F/G
• Professor: Samantha Brennan

Document Summary

Five approaches to fair play which the authors reject. Their own original approach: fair play as respect for the game. Sport as teaching virtues, fair play a subset of moral virtues. You can"t radically change the rules and still be playing the game. The idea of the interests of the game provides a means for judging one"s ownactions in relation to the sport. Taking the interests of the game seriously means that we ask ourselves whether or not some action we are contemplating would be good for the game concerned, if everyone did it. (butcher and schneider) Butcher and schneider understand fair play" as respect for the game" interms of an assumption and transformation of interests: sports are practices and practices are the sorts of things that can have interests". Accordingly, they argue that a squash player takes on the interests of her sport. Connected to the idea of intrinsic motivation, sport as its own good, not just instrumentally valuable.