스포츠윤리의 이론적 기초

Abstract

Showing increasing interests in sport ethics, a large number of articles on doping, sportsmanship, gender discrimination, match fixing, and fair play have been published in the Journal of Korean Philosophic Society for Sport and Dance. Considering that the discussion on sport ethics just emerged recently in South Korea, these articles evince that the Korean sport philosophy academia is up to undertaking sport ethics as a new discipline. In contrast of the flooding publications on specific topics, however, there has been few metaphilosophical reflections on sport ethics per se; can sport ethics exist within sport philosophy as an independent field? what are some characteristics of sport ethics? are there methodological grounds that would cause sport ethics to remain as a separate discipline? An attempt to answer these questions, this paper, rather than discussing specific topics of sport ethics, analyzes sport ethics as such in order to provide a theoretical frame for the study of sport ethics. First, my paper examines the relationship between sport and ethics, the forms taken by normative judgments in sport, and what constitutes the object of ethical consideration in sport. Then I suggest for a theoretical frame the four theories of ethics―utilitarian ethics, deontological ethics, contractarian ethics, and virtue ethics. These theories, I believe, can provide guidelines to making decisions and behaving as one tries to solve ethical problems raised in fields of sport.