Increasingly sport is becoming identified with the culture of the survival of the fittest. This involves subordinating everything else in sport to winning. This approach was encapsulated in the popular saying attributed to the famous American coach, Vince Lombardi, ‘Winning isn't all-important, it's the only thing.’
Sports stars today are confronted by an environment which is complex, competitive and demanding. Their inherited values and ethics do not always prepare them to address confidently the issues that chemical advances have presented to them. These issues confront our society in general but our ethical tradition offers us no ready answers. The result is moral uncertainty and confusion.
Accordingly, the Department of Religions and Theology in Trinity College In association with the Long Room Hub, have organised its fourth major interdisciplinary conference on Ethics and Sport on Saturday November 4th in the Long Room Hub in Trinity College from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. The aim of the conference is to begin a national conversation on this important issue.
The programme for the conference includes some big names in Irish sport.
Increasingly sport is becoming identified with the culture of the survival of the fittest. This involves subordinating everything else in sport to winning. This approach was encapsulated in the popular saying attributed to the famous American coach, Vince Lombardi, ‘Winning isn't all-important, it's the only thing.’
Sports stars today are confronted by an environment which is complex, competitive and demanding. Their inherited values and ethics do not always prepare them to address confidently the issues that chemical advances have presented to them. These issues confront our society in general but our ethical tradition offers us no ready answers. The result is moral uncertainty and confusion.
Accordingly, the Department of Religions and Theology in Trinity College In association with the Long Room Hub, have organised its fourth major interdisciplinary conference on Ethics and Sport on Saturday November 4th in the Long Room Hub in Trinity College from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. The aim of the conference is to begin a national conversation on this important issue.
The programme for the conference includes some big names in Irish sport.
