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Gordon Marino
Mar 21, 20221 min read
We Must Imitate Zelenksy, Not Just Admire Him
I am sitting in my cozy library in Northfield Minnesota, about to comment on the war in Ukraine from an existentialist perspective. The...



Gordon Marino
Jan 12, 20221 min read
Why Kierkegaard believed it’s lazy to admire our moral heroes
Søren Kierkegaard, the lyrical Danish philosopher, was keenly observant of the ways in which people ordered their lives. Like an...



Gordon Marino
Jan 4, 20221 min read
Is balance really the key to a good life?
My philosophy classes usually begin with a sermonette to the effect that philosophy is about loving and acquiring wisdom in contrast to...



Gordon Marino
Dec 16, 20201 min read
Kierkegaard’s moral phenomenology: When ethical consistency becomes ethical evasion
Even though ethics is included as one of the fundamental life perspectives in his famous three-stage theory of human development —...
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