Personal Worth and Sport (original) (raw)

Paper: 3000 My goal in this paper is to discuss a particular conception of virtue for sport that I think is more apt than two competing conceptions of virtue found in the virtue epistemology (VE) literature. While we often talk about virtues in sport, there has been little or no discussion of the particular conception of virtue that is most apt for sport. In Section 1 I give a very brief review of the two conceptions of virtue found in the virtue epistemology literature. In Section 2 I introduce the personal worth conception (PWC) of virtue as an alternative to one of the views presented in Section 1. In Section 3 I conclude by discussing the relevance of PWC to two virtues central to sport-honesty and practical wisdom.