Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca

• Aristotle


  courage, wisdom, temperance, justice
• Aristotle


  Supreme beauty of pentathletes- strength & speed
• Aristotle


  Friendship, justice, magnanimity
• Aristotle


  Women result of poorly formed sperm from their father, women defective
• Aristotle


  Virtue of the soul via careful training
• Socrates


  Soul rules the body
• Socrates


  Soul over body
• Socrates


  Pursuit of wisdom through argument, gentle shaming, fair play and cooperative competition
• Socrates


  Help people see their imperfections
• Socrates


  Physical activity not enough, must wrestle with ideas
• Seneca


  Exercise the body for health, not performance or appearance
• Seneca


  A stoic- freedom from one's own passion - hope and fear
• Seneca


  Gladiators most virtuous of athletes, crowd has false sense of superiority
• Seneca


  Honour/virtue in the face of death worth admiring
• Teleology


  "good or bad", not focused on the act
• Deontology


  "right vs wrong", focus on the act not the outcome
• Arete


  Excellence
• Agon


  Contest or struggle. Heart of Greek struggle
• Stoicism


  good lies in the state of the soul, in wisdom and self-control
• Socratic Method


  Truth and virtue, not victory. Collective understanding.
• Ethos


  A rhetorical or written technique that appeals to an audience or readers ethics
• Doctrine of the Mean


  Demands a sense of balance,
• Plato


  "Beautiful souls in strong athletic bodies"
• Plato


  Three parts to the psyche: wisdom loving part, honour loving part, pleasure loving part. Arete depends on all three
• Plato


  Women had a place in the gym, strong women strong babies