Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports potx

[...]... seeking and try to spread both risks and rewards One should help one’s neighbour and one should expect help in return The Buddhists are risk takers who concentrate both risk and rewards It is typically the Buddhists that have raised and equipped caravans over the high mountain passes in order to trade from south to north and from north to south One needs to take economical, physical and social risks... many ways expresses a risk accepting attitude On the other hand we have an ‘inland culture’ based on farming and industry that express a more risk aversive attitude Church and state support and underscore risk aversion and seek to develop safety and security as fundamental values In a survey of peoples’ attitudes we actually find that the coastal people are more willing to take risks (Norsk Monitor,... cultural and normative underpinnings, it may be a good idea to make explicit the alternative levels of risk tolerance such as risk avoidance, risk acceptance, risk taking, or risk seeking These levels refer to varying situational and personal constraints and possibilities In some situations we must face risks that are imposed upon us In other situations we can choose freely which level of risk we want,... leisure and sport, and especially in the ethics of medicine, research and sport He has recently co-authored Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sport Sciences (with S Olivier and P Wainwright, Routledge, 2006) His edited and co-edited books include Philosophy and the Sciences of Exercise, Health and Sport (Routledge, 2005), Ethics and Educational Research (with D Bridges, Blackwell, 2002); Ethics and. .. Extreme: Alternative Sports, Inside and Out (SUNY Press) His major research focus is in examining alternative sports forms, particular those considered ‘extreme’ and on the cusp between popular culture and mainstream sports Simon Robertson completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 2005 and is currently a temporary lecturer at the University of Leeds, England His main philosophical... consent This would exemplify a normative risk aversive strategy An opposite basic normative attitude could be called Risk Acceptance’ It would imply that human beings should accept risks and even take risks under certain circumstances One should, however, always try to identify and control risks One should avoid or eliminate risks when there are no rewards Risks should be minimized when other people... between movement and rest, process and structure, the dynamic and the static, growth and stability, risk and safety The paradigmatic views of the two Greek philosophers are to differing degrees realized in historical societies There is an interesting study by the climber and anthropologist Mike Thompson (1980) which shows how different environments and ways of living shape different risk strategies... take risks But risks should be taken in the right or relevant manner We do not want to get hurt or die by uncontrollable and irrelevant risks Risks must come in the right or relevant way If I go climbing I want the rope to be secure, the equipment to be dependable I know that there are risks in climbing but they must come in the right way, be relevant And which risks are relevant? The relevant risks... would like to record my thanks to Andrew Bloodworth for his proofreading and corrections, Samantha Grant from Routledge for persuading me of the value of this project, and to Simon Eassom whose original idea the volume was 1 Adventurous activity, prudent planners and risk Mike McNamee Introduction That there are people in the world who are interested in risk and risk- taking would surprise no-one I... injuries, personal bests, peaks of skill and strategic thinking Adventurous activity, prudent planners and risk 3 under conditions of compressed time and uncertain outcomes, and so on In these remembrances we make our connections with the threads of sporting lives, past and present, and future too By contrast, the rational planner of Brown’s argument is the sportsperson who has no need for regret or . in adventure and extreme sports, and with reference to key modern philosophers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Kant, Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports. x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports General interest in adventure sports and leisure activities in which risk is unavoidable grows