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Purpose between Humanity and Artificiality – Perspectives on the Life of a Space Marine the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium

Abstract The paper explores the complex existential situation of an Astartes Space Marine between humanity and artificiality and the implications of the peculiar type of purpose they follow from an existentialist and technical-philosophical perspective. Astartes are superhuman soldiers, trialed, enhanced, and trained to defend the Imperium of Man from the xenos, the heretic, the daemon. …

2024OnlinePanel 20Saturday 28th SeptemberWarhammer 40k

Only Beasts Fear Nothing: Philosophical Reflections on Fear and Space Marines in the Horus Heresy Series

Abstract One well-known piece of lore about Space Marines in Warhammer fiction is that they “know no fear.” Fans of the Horus Heresy series, in particular, will have read that Space Marines are not “built to feel fear,” that they are “immune to fear,” and that they are without “the capacity for fear.” However, fans …