Abstract
The aim of the paper is confronting internal or intrinsic values of sport detected by different sport-philosophers, such as W. J. Morgan, J. S. Russell, R. L. Simon, N. Dixon, S. Kretchmar, to today’s bio-technologized sports in order to find the ethical guidance for (non)acceptance of new bio-technologies in sport. Thus, in the first part, I will produce an overview of the internal values of sport in the sports-philosophical literature. In the second part, I will provide my understanding of ‘bio-technologized sports’, leaning mostly on W. J. Morgan’s and S. Loland’s previous work in this regard. In the third part, I will show that the key internal value of sport is ‘excellence’ and that the perfectionist account of sport dominates high-level professional competitive sports. However, I will show that ‘excellence’ is prone to different interpretations and understandings which (could) have different implications for the ‘bio-technologized sport’. Finally, I will propose going back to Aristotle and his account of eudaimonia to build principles for the regulation of (non)acceptance of bio-technology in sport.
Highlights
In the literature of the philosophy of sport, internal values of sport were debated from the late1980s onward by many scholars, such as W
In the first part, I will produce a critical overview on the topic of internal values in sport (IVS) in the literature of the philosophy of sport
I will show that the key internal value of sport is ‘excellence’ and that the perfectionist account of sport dominates high-level professional competitive sports
Summary
In the literature of the philosophy of sport, internal values of sport were debated from the late. From the early 2000s, the topic of bio-technology in/and sport was introduced and heavily discussed in the literature of sports sciences, from philosophy of sport to psychology, sociology, medicine to bioethics, by scholars such as A. In the first part, I will produce a critical overview on the topic of internal values in sport (IVS) in the literature of the philosophy of sport. IVS were presented and theorized among different normative internalist conceptions of sport, namely: historicistic conventionalist internalism (Morgan), interpretivism and broad internalism (Russell, Simon, Dixon), pluralistic internalism (Kretchmar), and shallow interpretivism (MacRea). I will present my understanding of bio-technologized sport and discuss why we should refer to today’s sport as such.
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