Philosophy 2079F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stamp Collecting, Motivation
6 Apr 2016
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Five approaches to fair play which the authors reject. Their own original approach: fair play as respect for the game. Everyone is in favor of fair play. Sport as teaching virtues, fair play a subset of moral virtues. When being a good player you often deceive people of what you are going to do which is not a virtue. Lots of things you do in sports are not virtues at all. There are some sports where breaking the rules is the strategy such as taking a penalty. You are not not playing the game when breaking a rule. You can"t radically change the rules and still be playing the game. Butcher and schneider understand fair play" as respect for the game" in terms of assumption and transformation of interests: sports are practices and practices are the sorts of things that can have interests. ". Connected to the idea of intrinsic motivation, sport as its own good, not just instrumentally valuable.
