Abstract

In this study, we focus on a discussion of whether collective responsibility in high school baseball is right or wrong, analyzing the point at issue from the viewpoint of communitarianism and aiming to provide a new viewpoint for the argument. We selected the obligation concept as a concrete perspective for our analysis and used it to examine the point at issue. The crucial issue was whether a person who is a member of a baseball club should take responsibility for the actions of other members of the same baseball club. First, we reviewed criticism of communitarianism to moral individualism. Second, we clarified the obligation concept as defined by Sandel, who is a representative of the communitarian viewpoint. Finally, we used that concept to frame the issue mentioned above. As a result, we propose that members of a baseball club have obligations of solidarity toward one another in terms of their communities, which in this case are both the baseball club and the school. Verf.-Referat