Abstract

A stadium community cannot determine the quality of the humanistic task called the fair play culture. Young participants of the stadium community are not mature enough to effectively endeavor to transform the stadium into a community of sports humanism. Stadium participants fail to realize that their inner-stadium life can be only maintained through the extra-stadium alter ego. While comparing the stadium of contest and the stadium of confrontation it can be assumed that the humanistic sense of a sports feat is determined by cultural guardians of the stadium, the most significant of which is the Stadium Sage. The stadium sages - ethicists, pedagogues and philosophers - represent sport on behalf of athletes themselves, which the latter do not realize. The sages, while participating indirectly in their idealized humanistic space of the agon, constitute a community of the good and the wise. A sage as a scholar is a complete human being devoted to the cause of sports humanism. He or she is a member of various supranational institutions of the Infallible Sages who work on the constitution of the universal project of humanity. Only when the relationship of the athlete and the stadium sage is revealed can the anthropological athlete be properly fulfilled. The mentioned relationship is unilateral. It is the sages who determine the cultural destiny of athletes, while the latter only occasionally try to determine their own identity and destiny.