The Cardinal Virtues and Kinesiology

The Missing Science: Ethics in Practice

“…These courses in toto often were part and parcel of a liberal arts tradition, and one learned that there was such a thing as right and wrong, good and bad, and even what was beautiful and what was not. However, such is not the case today, especially in the ield of kinesiology and exercise science, which lies at the root of education for sports, coaching, and teaching [29].…”

“…With so few institutions with professors who are trained, educated, and published in the ield, there can be no faculty teaching in the subject mater ield with merit. We ind that interesting [29,30]. No kinesiological faculty would place a non-exercise physiologist in an exercise science course-but the faculty has no issue with placing an instructor in a philosophy of sports class who has no credentials.…”