｜PART 1｜
The Foundation of Sports Ethics

CHAPTER 1
Ethics and Sports / 3
1 Ethical Foundations of Sports 4
2 The Nature of Sports Ethics 8
3 Moral Judgment 12

Chapter 2
The Ethics of Sports Competition / 19
1 Play and Sports 20
2 Agon 27
3 The Pursuit of Excellence and Victory 30
4 The Ethics of Aggression 35

CHAPTER 3
Rules and Fouls in Sports / 41
1 Principles of Sports Rules 42
2 Types of Rules 45
Violation of Rule 3: Foul 49
Amendment to Rule 4 56

Chapter 4
Sports Code of Ethics / 59
1 Sports and Justice 60
2 Fair Play 68
3 Sportsmanship 73

｜PART 2｜
ethical theory

CHAPTER 5
Utilitarianism / 83
1 Principle of Utilitarianism 84
2 Quantitative Utilitarianism and Qualitative Utilitarianism 87
3 Act Utilitarianism and Rule Utilitarianism 90
4 Criticism of Utilitarianism and Modern Utilitarianism 92

Chapter 6
Obligation / 99
1 Foundations of Kantian Ethics 100
2 Principles of Deontological Ethics 101
3 Moral Laws and the Categorical Imperative 106
4 Kant's Moral Philosophy and the Norms of Sports 108

CHAPTER 7
Virtue Ethics / 115
1 Characteristics of Virtue Ethics 116
2 The Development of Virtue Ethics 118
3 Virtue Ethics and Sports 125

｜PART 3｜
Sports and Injustice

CHAPTER 8
Doping / 135
1. The Meaning and Types of Doping 136
2 The Ethical Basis of Anti-Doping 138
3 A New Ethical Basis for Doping 143
4 Technical Doping 146
5 Gene doping 149

CHAPTER 9
Discrimination / 155
1 Sexism in Sports 156
2 Racism in Sports 161
3 Disability Discrimination in Sports 169

Chapter 10
Violence / 177
1 Philosophical Reflections on Violence 178
2 The Duality of Sports and Violence 185
3 Types of Sports Violence 188

｜PART 4｜
Sports and Social Ethics

CHAPTER 11
Sports and Environmental Ethics / 195
1 Environmental Ethics and Sports 196
2 Environmental Ethics Applicable to Sports 200
3 Sports and Environmental Issues 209

CHAPTER 12
Ethics of Judgment / 217
1 Sports and Refereeing 218
2 Types of Referees and Professional Certification System 221
3 Characteristics of Referee Ethics 223
4 The Structure of Judgment Ethics 227

CHAPTER 13
Athletes' Human Rights / 233
1 Definition and Theoretical Background of Human Rights 234
2 The Concept and Structure of Athletes' Human Rights 237
3 Contents of Players' Human Rights 239
4 Cases and Problems of Human Rights Violations in Sports in Korea 242
5 Legal and Institutional Measures for Athletes' Human Rights 244
6 Protecting Athletes' Human Rights and Fair Sports 248

｜PART 5｜
Sports and school education

CHAPTER 14
Sports and Moral Education / 253
1 Moral Education and Sports 254
2 Moral Education 257
3. The Area of ​​Sports Moral Education 264
4 Theories of Inclusive Education 268

REFERENCES 273

INDEX Search 277

introduction

The day I write this introduction happens to be my birthday.
I wish I could do push-ups at this age, but time has a way of taking away the tendons.
It's not just the muscles, but the sensitivity and guns are also pitiful compared to when they were vibrant.
The saying that one's perspective on the world deepens with age is nonsense.
I get upset more often and get angry easily when I hear bitter words.
If there's anything I've learned, it's the realization that there are no guarantees in life.

As I was writing the second introduction, I thought it would be the last.
I was confident that there was nothing more to fill in, but in less than two years I am writing the preface to a new edition.
Even in that short period of time, the world changed like lightning.
After the Ice Age-like pandemic passed, AI began to replace humans in earnest.
Calling balls and strikes in baseball is now a chore for AI.
Some sports have AI commentary on the games.
People are disappearing from the sports world.

If the way people live is the humanities, then sports are the humanities.
Sports, where we laugh at victory and cry at defeat, worship sweat and scold pride, are all too human.
Sports ethics can be said to be the essence of humanities, as it even examines the rights and wrongs of actions.
But despite this pride, sports ethics has remained unfamiliar and unfamiliar.
Still alone, thin and miserable, without having achieved the citizenship of academia.

So in this version, I filled in more of the human's patterns and flesh.
‘Athletes’ Human Rights’ was added as a new chapter, and the theory explaining sports phenomena was greatly strengthened.
With a lineup like this, you won't be outdone no matter where you put it.
I am proud to say that I have maintained my original intention of talking about ethics like ventriloquism, but also talking about sports, and thus conveying that sports are a profound human activity.

But I felt empty all the time while thinking about the preface.
Perhaps it's because of the nature of a book that's mine but not mine. It's a bit ironic that I feel carefree but also keep looking back.
There is a line like this in the novel by Haruki Murakami that I am reading now.
“It is better not to look up at the sky when you have a plate on your head.” But I read it as “You cannot look up at the sky when you have a plate on your head.”
I finally put down the plate that had been resting on my head for so long. I want to relax my neck and look at the stars in the sky.


November 2025
Author Kim Jeong-hyo