2025

Ethics of Sport

Name: Ethics of Sport
Code: FIL14587M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Philosophy

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

This unit intends to make known and understand sport as a contemporary, multidimensional phenomenon, which allows us to renew philosophical problems in areas such as Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics and Philosophical Anthropology.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Students, as a result of the curricular unit, should:
1. Know and understand sports as social phenomena of our time.
2. Know and understand how sport as multidimensional phenomena helps to renewal of philosophical problems in areas such Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics and Philosophical Anthropology.

Contents

1.Introduction.
2. Sport as competition.
3. Sport and education.
4. Modern sport and the Olympics (Pierre Coubertin).
5. Problems of sport today.

Teaching Methods

Exposure, text analysis and discussion, debate.
Continuous evaluation: assistance: 20%; participation and debate: 20%; writing test: 60%.
Exam: 100%.