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What's the point of sport?
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In most cases, the top athletes in any event are evenly matched except for small but decisive differen... as mentioned in this paper The fundamental reality of elite sport is the relentless competitive dynamic that drives it.Abstract:
The fundamental reality of elite sport is the relentless competitive dynamic that drives it. In most cases, the top athletes, in any event, are evenly matched except for small but decisive differen...read more
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Fair play in sport: a moral norm system.
TL;DR: Fair Play in sport as mentioned in this paper presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive sport, linking general moral principles and practical cases.
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More than a New Business: A Theology of Play for Sport Entrepreneurship
Nuria Toledano,Vanessa Ratten +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of play in the context of sport entrepreneurship, particularly in the fitness industry, has been discussed, with the aim to give the sport entrepreneurship field a novel twist by relating it to a theology of play, which allows us to develop alternative thoughts based on concepts that transcend the typical rationalist business approach.
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Spheres Of Justice: A Defense Of Pluralism And Equality
TL;DR: In this paper, complex equality, membership, security and welfare, money and commodities, office, hard work, free time, education, kinship and love, recognition, political power, Tyrannies and just societies.
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Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies
TL;DR: The socology of sport has been studied extensively in the past and the present, see as discussed by the authors for a survey of some of the main areas of interest in sport in the social sciences.
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Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
TL;DR: In this paper, complex equality, membership, security and welfare, money and commodities, office, hard work, free time, education, kinship and love, recognition, political power, Tyrannies and just societies.
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Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
Norman Daniels,Michael Walzer +1 more
TL;DR: Lawler as mentioned in this paper argued that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament, which is hardly a rational position in the sense that it is suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some.