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O Captain! My Captain!: leadership, virtue, and sport
John William Devine 
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 45 - 62
Swansea University Author:
John William Devine
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/00948705.2020.1848435
Abstract
There is a crisis of leadership in sport. Leadership as an athletic excellence is under threat from the deepening influence of coaches on in-game decisionmaking. To appreciate what is being lost in this shift of responsibility, it is necessary to understand the challenge of athlete leadership. Capta...
| Published in: | Journal of the Philosophy of Sport |
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| ISSN: | 0094-8705 1543-2939 |
| Published: |
Informa UK Limited
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55612 |
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There is a crisis of leadership in sport. Leadership as an athletic excellence is under threat from the deepening influence of coaches on in-game decisionmaking. To appreciate what is being lost in this shift of responsibility, it is necessary to understand the challenge of athlete leadership. Captaincy is the quintessential on-field leadership role. However, the role of captain, and athlete leadership more widely, remains philosophically untheorized. This paper initiates a discussion of leadership in sport by providing the first normative account of captaincy. Rugby union is used as a case study, as this sport preserves an especially demanding and complex form of captaincy that may provide a rough template for the revival of athlete leadership in other sports. A virtue theoretical analysis of the role is developed based on a functionalist conception of virtue. It is argued that discharging the responsibilities of such captaincy requires two key virtues: ‘sporting judgement’ and ‘responsibility’. |
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| Keywords: |
Captaincy; Leadership; Virtue Ethics; Judgement; Rugby Union |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Issue: |
1 |
| Start Page: |
45 |
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62 |