The Ideal of the Stoic Sportsman.

The article focuses on the Stoic conduct in the sports world. In the "American Heritage Dictionary" a Stoic is defined as "one who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain." The Stoic sportsman must have such emotions in order for sport to be a training ground for the development of virtuous states of character. The Stoic sportsman must care about the achievement of excellence and the pursuit of victory. The Stoic sportsman loves virtuous states of character and maintains her magnanimity. The sportsman preserves carefulness by concentrating on performing the techniques of the game, the playing of the sport.