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The Why & the How GORDON MARINO “If we have our own ‘why’ in life, we shall get along with almost any ‘how.’” In his famous Holocaust survival memoir, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl...

Sick Souls, Healthy Minds (June 2021)

BOOKS Captives of Habit GORDON MARINO SICK SOULS, HEALTHY MINDS How William James Can Save Your Life john kaag Princeton University Press $22.95 | 224 pp. William James (1842-1910) is...

Philosopher of the Heart (February 2021)

BOOKS The Pascal of the North GORDON MARINO PHILOSOPHER OF THE HEART The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard CLARE CARLISLE Farrar, Straus and Giroux $30 | 368 pp. Seren Kierkegaard...

The Greatest (July 2016)

SHORT TAKES Gordon Marino The Greatest HOW MUHAMMAD ALI WON ME OVER Let us now praise famous men. Muhammad Ali is often touted for his courage outside the ring, for being a champion of justice,...

What Philosophy Can Do (May 2016)

Gordon Marino Words to the Not Yet Wise What Philosophy Can Do Gary Gutting W.W. Norton, $27.95, 304 pp. Philosophy has some fresh wind in its sails these days. People who have grown numb to...

Life After Faith (May 2015)

Gordon Marino Tough Questions Life After Faith The Case for Secular Humanism Philip Kitcher Yale University Press, $25, 175pp. Though the prose is calm and pacific, this is a cannonball of a...

Ribbon Chasers (March 2013)

THE LAST WORD Ribbon Chasers Gordon Marino Since his confession to Oprah Winfrey last month, Lance Armstrong's psyche has been lanced and explored from many different angles. Some have deemed the...

Spiritual Writings (January 2012)

Gordon Marino Consider the Lilies Spiritual Writings A New Translation and Selection S0ren Kierkegaard Translated by George Pattison HarperCollins, $15.99, 298 pp. Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55)...

Me, Not We (September 2007)

Commonweal . September 14, 2007 8 Short Take Me, Not We Gordon Marino WHAT AILS OUR HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM Iwas in a funk not long ago, and a person in a funk sometimes makes bad...

The Persecuted (January 2005)

The Last Word The Persecuted ~ordon Marino O n my way out of church recently, a fellow churchgoer struck up a conversation with me. After some bellyaching about "the modern world," he...

Altered states (May 2004)

Gordon Marino ALTERED STATES Pills alone won't cure the blues of long ago I bumped into one of my student advisees. I hadn't seen him for a couple of months and I asked him how he was faring. A...

Never saying you're sorry (October 2003)

NEVER SAYING YOU'RE SORRY Gordon Marino I suspect that if you pressed President George W. Bush to offer one piece of moral advice to the youth of America, he would counsel, "You need to take...

The missing virtue Educating for character (April 2003)

Gordon Marino THE MISSING VIRTUE Lessons from dodge ball & Aristotle Smericans are inclined to ring the moral alarm and then hit the snooze button. After the latest moral crisis on Wall Street (I...

Bob Kerrey's culpability: The principle of noncombatant immunity (June 2001)

Gordon Marino KERREY'S CULPABILITY Vietnam & the just-war tradition Hast month," Sixty Minutes II" aired a program in which Gerhard Klann claimed that on February 25,1969, former Senator Bob...

AVOIDING MORAL CHOICES: Ethics experts have a way of making almost every choice seem moral. Don't believe it (March 2001)

AVOIDING MORAL CHOICES Call in the ethics expert Gordon Narino It does not require an expert to see that we are living in era of highly bureaucratized knowledge, a time that more than one...

APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY? (February 1998)

APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY? Facing up to the living past Gordon Marino or reasons that would be interesting to explore, gestures of collective repentance have recently become quite popular. In 1994,...

Justifying torture (June 1997)

Gordon Marino JUSTIFYING TORTURE Why the Israelis are wrong For years now the Israeli security forces have been using torture as a method of interrogation and, thanks to the lack of space in...

Encounters with Kierkegaard (January 1997)

ONE INTENSE LITTLE GUY Encounters with Kierkegaard A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries Collected, edited, and annotated by Bruce H. Kirmmse Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse and Virginia...

Can we still talk? (December 1994)

CAN WE STILL TALK? EXPERIMENTING ON HUMAN EMBRYOS SUSAN ELLIS GORDON MARINO ater this month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will decide how to review and possibly fund experiments on...

Marino, Gordon D.

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Marion, Jean-Luc

Maritain, A. S. Oko-Raissa

Maritain, Jacques

Maritain, Raissa

Maritain, Raïssa

Maritano, Nino

Marius, Richard

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Markey, Eileen

Markoe, William M.