Gordon Marino
Gordon Marino is emeritus professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. His most recent book is The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age (2018). He lives in Northfield, Minnesota.
Written by Gordon Marino
Addiction
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I made professor before Ritalin. Now I can’t work without it
Once I was prescribed Ritalin, I couldn’t do without it. How had I been a professor before I got my pharmaceutical wings?
by Gordon Marino
Ethics
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Why Kierkegaard believed it’s lazy to admire our moral heroes
It’s not enough to shake our heads in admiration of martyrs for the good – we must also follow their ethical example
by Gordon Marino
Compassion and empathy
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Pity is an emotion easy to scorn but central to our humanity
Have pity for pity: when misused, it can express condescension or selfish relief, but it can also be a consoling virtue
by Gordon Marino