Professor Emeritus and Director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, Gordon Marino is the author of The Existentialist’s Survival Guide (Harper).
Coming to terms with our most basic instincts is another thing we learn through boxing.
We need to preserve a distinction between recognizing our transgressions and resolving to change, on one hand, and imagining that we can forgive ourselves, on the other.