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The Moral Dimension of Doping
Mehmet Goral

Abstract: The birth and improvement of sports is part of the civilization process of the mankind. In the birth and improvement of sports, the struggle of primitive man with nature who has seen himself under threat and spiritual power, effort, confidence born of success, pleasure and happiness that are needed to win this struggle have been the mutual Fundamentals of sport thus far. Sport especially comes up as a humanitarian activity attractive masses, as a presentation of policies and ideologies, its meaning corrupted and commercialized, Even the Olympics, considered as the essence and a show place of sports is witnessed to be made into a financial merchandise, with the Olympic idea ignored. The research has aimed at bringing up the usage to doping in view of morality and the negative effects. The failure of the researches in this field and the insufficiency of publications and to be spread of doping has increased the importance of the research. Finally, sport has estranged to its essence and conflicted with itself. The concept of performance, which ignores all moral and social values in industrialized countries, has had its effect on sport too and competition and winning have come to be considered as the same things. Sportsman like competition has been replaced by which anything goes. The change of goal in sport has changed the quality and to its effects on the sportsman. This has lead to various like doping, which do not comply with fair play and sportsmanship.

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Mehmet Goral , 2008. The Moral Dimension of Doping. The Social Sciences, 3: 564-572.

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