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Campus where you would like to present
SURC Room 271
Start Date
15-5-2014
End Date
15-5-2014
Keywords
Ethics, Athletes, Dignity
Abstract
College athletes are not being treated with dignity in the current student-athlete format. Nineteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant introduces the idea of dignity in the Groundworks of the Metaphysics of Morality. I discuss Kant's views and apply them to the issue of college athletics. I argue that the term student-athlete is no longer appropriate, and that the amateurism myth denies college athletes dignity. I discuss health risks, devaluation of academics, and reduction of athlete's goals and ends, and explain why these hazards are detrimental to the college athlete, and to the institution of college athletics as a whole.
For this presentation, Maxwell Davis received a College of Arts and Humanities Best Oral Presentation Award for 2014.
Recommended Citation
Davis, Maxwell, "The "Student-Athlete" Myth" (2014). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 91.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2014/oralpresentations/91
Additional Mentoring Department
Philosophy and Religious Studies
The "Student-Athlete" Myth
SURC Room 271
College athletes are not being treated with dignity in the current student-athlete format. Nineteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant introduces the idea of dignity in the Groundworks of the Metaphysics of Morality. I discuss Kant's views and apply them to the issue of college athletics. I argue that the term student-athlete is no longer appropriate, and that the amateurism myth denies college athletes dignity. I discuss health risks, devaluation of academics, and reduction of athlete's goals and ends, and explain why these hazards are detrimental to the college athlete, and to the institution of college athletics as a whole.
For this presentation, Maxwell Davis received a College of Arts and Humanities Best Oral Presentation Award for 2014.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Goerger, Michael