Ethics in Sport and Global Ethics Vladimir S. Rodichenko Russian Olympic Committee, Moscow, Russia |
Introduction This paper reflects the results of the long-term study of ethics in sport and the phenomenon of Fair Play as an area of general ethics, including the Project of Global Ethos [1]. Methods Theoretical analysis, participant observation. Results The following concepts were determined and will be covered in the full text of the paper: 1. Concept of types of ethical principles of sport: determining the ethics of play; demanding a concrete act; referred to fans. 2. Concept of areas of athlete’s conduct: playing, regulated by rules; the area of a moral choice in which an athlete stays as a personality; area of all types of fraud and/or cheating. 3. Concept of doping abuse prevention and penalizing as a part of state judicial systems [2]. 4. Concept of Fair Play as the guild or cooperative standards in sport. 5. Concept of extrapolation of principles of Fair Play in sport to daily life for forming of the future global ethos. Discussion/Conclusions The centrizm prevailing in the human community will allow us to work out the typology of principles of real, not utopian, Fair Play in various spheres of daily life. It is supposed that Fair Play principles implemented into daily life could become a paradigm of ethics of the 21st century. References [1]. Hans Kueng. Projekt Weltethos, 1990, R.Pipper GmbH & Co. KG, Muenchen. [2]. Vladimir Rodichenko, 2001, An Introduction to Sportology, Moscow, Sovetsky Sport. – p. 99-102. http://www.icsspe.org/portal/bulletin-June2004.htm Ethics in Sport and Global Ethics Vladimir S. Rodichenko Russian Olympic Committee, Moscow, Russia