Tag: Luísa Ávila da Costa

This article explores the intersection of sports and human rights, illustrating how sports have evolved into a critical component of society, overcoming the outdated perspective viewing sports as leisure or competitive pursuits, recognizing their role as fundamental rights, reinforced by international frameworks like the Olympic Charter and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. These advancements highlight sports’ capacity to promote physical and mental well-being and social inclusion.

With a pedagogical objective, this article by Constantino Pereira Martins and Luísa Ávila da Costa seeks to think and explore ethics in a way accessible to the common, non-philosophical reader, deconstructing and challenging the usual weight of the classical tradition and translating it to direct and fundamental questioning. This basic structure enables the presentation of the problem through seven statements, each open to singular or unified discussions regarding ethics in general or within specific pragmatic cases.

The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues – metaphysical, ethical, epistemological, aesthetic, or otherwise – arising in sport, games, play, dance, embodiment, and other motor-related activities. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: by Sinclair A. MacRae.