Why rugby players are turning to Aristotle for inspiration

For the past year, I’ve been running a philosophy group at Saracens rugby
club.

Once a month, I go to Saracens’ training ground in St Albans and give
a brief talk about an idea from ancient philosophy that can be applied to
our lives today.

Then the group – usually around 10 players and staff – use
that as a starting point to discuss how to live well.




We’ve covered everything from “accepting adversity” to “what makes a good
friend”, and have explored ideas from many wisdom traditions – Epicurus, the
Stoics, Taoism, Buddhism – as well as looking at how these have bee…