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Glory in Sport (and Elsewhere)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2013

Timothy Chappell
Timothy Chappell*
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Faculty of Arts, The Open University, t.chappell@open.ac.uk
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There is a gap between what we think about ethics, and what we think we think about ethics. This gap appears when elements of our ethical reflection and our moral theories contradict each other, or otherwise come into logical tension. It also appears when something that is important in our ethical reflection is sidelined, or simply ignored, in our moral theories. The gap appears in both ways with an ethical idea that I shall label glory. This paper's exploration of the idea of glory, and its place in our ethical reflection, is offered as a case-study of how far such reflection can diverge from what we might expect, if we suppose that actual ethical reflection usually or mostly takes the forms that might be predicted by moral theory. I shall suggest that this divergence tells against moral theory, and in favour of less constricted and more flexible modes of ethical reflection.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 73: Philosophy and Sport , October 2013 , pp. 99 - 128
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2013 

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