ABSTRACT Do famous athletes have special obligations to act virtuously? A number of philosophers have investigated this question by examining whether famous athletes are subject to special role model obligations. In this paper, we will take a different approach and give a positive response to this question by arguing for the position that sport and gaming celebrities are ‘ambassadors of the game’: moral agents whose vocations as rule-followers have unique implications for their non-lusory lives. According to this idea, the actions of a game’s players and other stakeholders – especially the actions of its stars – directly affect the value of the game itself, a fact which generates additional moral reasons to behave in a virtuous manner. We will begin by explaining the three main positions one may take with respect to the question: moral exceptionalism, moral generalism, and moral exemplarism. We will argue that no convincing case for moral exemplarism has thus far been made, which gives us reason to look for new ways to defend this position. We then provide our own ‘ambassadors of the game’ account and argue that it gives us good reason to think that sport and game celebrities are subject to special obligations to act virtuously.

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比赛的大使：著名运动员是否有特殊义务要有德行？

摘要著名运动员是否有特别的义务行善？许多哲学家通过检查著名运动员是否受特殊榜样义务来研究这个问题。在本文中，我们将采用一种不同的方法，并通过争论体育和游戏名人是“游戏的大使”的立场来对这个问题做出积极回应：道德主体，其作为规则追随者的职业对其非宗教活动有着独特的影响。充实的生活。根据这个想法，游戏玩家和其他利益相关者的行为，尤其是明星的行为，直接影响到游戏本身的价值，这一事实产生了道德上的更多道德行为。我们将首先解释一个人可能对这个问题采取的三个主要立场：道德例外主义，道德普遍主义和道德典范主义。我们将争辩说，迄今为止还没有令人信服的道德示范主义案例，这使我们有理由寻找捍卫这一立场的新方法。然后，我们提供了自己的“游戏大使”帐户，并认为这使我们有充分的理由认为体育名人和游戏名人有特殊的义务要有德行。