Influence of Sport on the Human Moral Life: its Advantages, its Difficulties and the Efforts to Overcome them according to Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Teaching

Abstract

The paper presents the educational aspects of sport in the light of St Thomas Aquinas’ teaching. This analysis is very relevant for many reasons. One of them, and possibly the most important one, is the fact that in the early 21st century sport ceased to be beneficial to humans and instead it often becomes a threat to our wellbeing and dignity. Thus the aim of this article is to highlight the huge potential and the opportunities that sport offers to the integrated human personality development. This is made possible by bringing Aquinas’ teaching, especially his view on physical culture in the light of aretological primacy.