Tag: Sabrina B. Little
A solo run on a well-trodden path makes for frustrating reading
In The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners (Oxford UP), philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little looks at the key ideas of virtue ethics and brings them into conversation with her experience of training and racing. Unfortunately, writes Pam R. Sailors, the author leaves 50 years of philosophy of sports writing out of that conversation. Philosophical thinking develops in the interaction of thinkers, old and new, but this process is conspicuously and sadly missing from Little’s book.
