ABSTRACT
In the previous chapters I have begun to build a case for a particular vision of the ethical status and potential of sports. Of course, the arguments over whether sports build or merely reveal character is probably as old as sport itself. The aim of this chapter is to further develop an account of the moral educational potential of sports from a virtue-ethical perspective. While this may seem straightforward enough, it is not. In recent years social scientific research has denied the possibility of ethical development in sport. Indeed, it has typically argued that sport arrests development at an egoistic stage.
