Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives

Index

absurd: concept of, 89, 218, 248n2; sport as, 190, 213, 218, 260n3 Ackerman, Dianne, 4–5, 5–6, 7 adaptation of desires, 29–32, 49–51; fans and, 69–72; strategies of, 51–69 Annan, Kofi, 93, 128 Aristotle, 181–82 attitudinal pleasure, 14–15 Austin J. L., 100, 107 authority: appeal to, 169; coaches use of, 169, 183; and morality, 169–70 autonomy: intellectual, 170–72; and meaning, 200, 215–16 autotelicity, 9, 11 Baier, Kurt, 193, 200–201 Barkley, Charles, 131, 132, 135, 139 Best, David, 146–47 Bhagavad Gita, 62–64 Blandshard, Brand, 260n12 books, coach, 157 Boutron, Jim, 67–68 Boxill, Jan, 34–35 Brown, Stuart, 5, 8, 9, 10, 14, 20–21, 25 Bryant, Kobe, 154 Buddhism, 30, 39, 58, 59–60, 63, 89 Buss, Susan, 250n7 Cahn, Steven, 268n24 Caillois, Roger, 17, 19, 20, 21, 241–42n30 Caldwell, Peter, 32–33 Camus, Albert, 195, 199, 262n10 Carlin, George, 99, 106 character education myth, 177–78 Cheney, Dick, 93, 120, 121, 128 college athletics, 158–59, 166–72 competition: criticism of, 26, 42–43; and play, 26–27 competitive desires, 42–43, 56–62 conformism, 54–56 Cordner, Christopher, 147–48 cosmic gratitude, 165 Craig, William Lane, 198–203, 208, 226 cussing: aesthetic arguments against, 119; categories of, 102–7; examples of, 98–99; meta-language of, 97–102; moral arguments against, 111–15; offensiveness of, 113– 15; prudential arguments against, 110–11; reasons for, 120–24; religious arguments against, 109–11; social arguments against, Index 270 Index Glover, Jonathan, 161 Godlovitch, Stanley, 174, 175 happiness: and adapting desires, 30–32, 49–51, 51–69, 70–72; continuum of, 47–48; and optimizing desires, 30–32; and vulnerability in sports, 45–48 hedonism, 14–15, 225 Heidegger, Martin, 265n2 Heinegg, Peter, 36 Herrigel, Eugen, 268n24 higher education, 171, 179, 182–83 Homeric deeds, 161 Huizinga, Johan, 2, 5, 6, 17, 19, 21, 145–46 humility, 165, 171 Hursthouse, Rosalind, 116, 124 Hyland, Drew, 46 inflationary attitudes, 194–96, 238 intuitions about meaning, 196–98, 222 Irvine, William, 58, 59 Ivanhoe, Philip, 60–62 Jay, Timothy, 97–98, 99, 100, 101, 119 Joske, W. D., 217–18, 231 Kahneman, Daniel, 39 Kazez, Jean, 177 Kekes, John, 198, 215–16, 217, 219, 221–22 Kerrane, Kevin, 104 Knight, Bobby, 43–44, 96, 103, 104, 105, 106, 110, 111–12, 113, 117, 118, 124–25, 126, 128 Kohn, Alfie, 26–27, 42–43, 46, 49, 57, 61 Krzyzewski, Mike, 125–26 Kupperman, Joel, 59–60, 64, 117, 118, 268n24 Lasch, Christopher, 148 losing: is like death, 69–70; and vulnerability , 47 Loudon, Robert, 143–44 Luper, Steven, 30–31, 47–48, 53, 54–56, 58, 61 lusory object, 149–51 cussing (continued) 115–16; and sportsmanship, 124–25; and taboo-loading, 98, 99–100, 121; virtue arguments against, 116–19; and virtue ethics, 123–24 Danielson, Gary, 155, 184 deflationary attitudes, 192, 193, 237–38 desires: conditionalizing, 68–69; elimination of, 56–62; moderation of, 60–61, 69–72; motivated and unmotivated, 51; multiplying, 64–65; redirecting, 62–64; trivializing, 65–69 desire satisfaction, 30-32 detachment, 60–61, 63–64, 89–90 Dixon, Nicholas, 73–91, 125, 255n61 Dombrowski, Daniel, 240–41n23 Dooling, Richard, 106, 252n34, 253n44 Dufrenne, Mikel, 242n38 Epicurus, 14 everything happens for a reason, 52–56 exemplarism: arguments for, 135–37; and consequentialism, 141–42; criticisms of, 137–44; as dishonest, 138–41; epistemological problems for, 142–44; as redundant , 137–38; and special responsibilities, 135–37 existential anguish, 202, 237, 266–67n20 expletives. See cussing Fagan, Bob, 8 Favre, Brett, 187, 188 Feinstein, John, 96, 103, 104–5, 111–12, 117 Feldman, Fred, 14–15 Flanagan, Owen, 228–30, 223, 238 Foot, Phillipa, 176 Frankena, William, 249–50n7 Frankfurt, Harry, 70, 94–95, 120 French, Peter, 177–178 futility, 217–20 Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 21–24 games, 16–18, 145–46 Giamatti, A. Bartlett, 148–49, 150 Index 271 MacIntyre, Alasdair, 224, 258–59n1 Mackie, J. L., 249n1 Magee, Bryan, 266–67n20 malleabilism, 54–56 Malone, Karl, 131, 135–36, 138, 257n3 Mandelbaum, Michael, 34, 261n4 Martin, Raymond, 236–37 McGinn, Colin, 4, 6, 11, 25, 34, 37, 71, 108, 261n4 meaning: and morality, 216–17; and relations , 222–26; spaces of, 227–34; theistic model of, 198–203, 222–23; as transcending limits, 224–26 meaningful activities, 203, 206–8, 211–14, 215–16, 223–24, 233, 234–35; lives...