Month: March 2025

I think that performance enhancing drugs are compatible with the ideal conception of sports. Simon’s idea of sports being a, “mutual quest for excellence through challenge,” implies that if all athletes had some sort of relative class where they could compete, then PED’s would still fit within the ideal concept of sports (Simon 179). Evaluating […]

Fraleigh defines a good sports contest as, “meeting, together, standards supplied by the nature of the sports contest itself and the two cited standards”, where the first of those two standards is that a sports contest is a, “voluntary, agreed upon, human event … [with] socially approved tactics and strategy,” with the purpose to, “provide […]

I think that externalism best describes the role that sports fills in Western ideology because it seems to be the prevailing way they are conceptualized in most discussions. My understanding of externalism as it pertains to sports is that there are values held by a culture such that one could determine whether or not a […]