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Gordon Marino

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Professor of philosophy at @StOlaf, former boxer & author of The Existentialist's Survival Guide (available now)
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Gordon Marino: Why 'service' and 'giving back' get it wrong

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By Gordon Marino
| Post-Bulletin
We need fresh terms for what we refer to as “service” or “giving back.” I say this as someone who taught for 27 years at a college where “service” was treated as a sacred obligation and “giving back” a wedding vow. The problem is not the intention behind these words but their resonance. They can sound as if they are spoken from a step or two above the person being served, as though someone with a little extra is now returning a portion of it.
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Mano a Mano | The Point Magazine

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By Gordon Marino
| The Point
Aristotle, a student of a wrestler named Plato, taught that eudaimonia, usually translated as “happiness” or “the good life,” requires both intellectual and moral virtues. With regard to the latter, courage, the moral muscle to confront and overcome our fears, is essential. Failures of courage assume a variety of forms. Many who are rich in talents are stymied by the terror of trying and failing.
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All Heart

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By Gordon Marino
| Commonweal Magazine
The plaintive clanging of the round keeper’s bell in a silent arena is the boxing equivalent of a twenty-one-gun salute. Recently, the bell rang ten times in honor of the two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman. As a reporter who once covered the small boxing beat for The Wall Street Journal, I was privileged to enjoy numerous conversations with the “virtuoso of violence” who spread love and peace as easily as he flung feed to the chickens on his Texas farm.
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