What kinds of risks are required for a life to be a good one? How can we balance our pursuit of ideals against the risks that they involve? How should we distribute risk and reward? Who gets to decide what players do during the national anthem? Is boxing immoral?
Selections from the symposium on "Sports, Risk, and the Human Ideal" held at the University of Louisville on October 13, 2017, sponsored by the UofL Philosophy Department, Liberal Studies Project, Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society, College of Arts & Sciences, Muhammad Ali Center, and the Society for Applied Philosophy.
Speakers featured in this program:
Heather Reid, "The Value of Risk in Sport from Gilgamesh to Gridiron Gladiators";
Gordon Marino, "In Defense of the Bittersweet Science";
Calvin Warren, "The Field of (non)Being: Sports, Anti-Blackness, and Ontological Procedures".
Music by Prismic @prismicofficial