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Leon Kass

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One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.


— Leon Kass


#caution #doing #engineering #enough #kinds

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.


— Leon Kass


#child #copy #could #dead #even

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.


— Leon Kass


#equally #itself #man #means #mortality

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.


— Leon Kass


#economic growth #enhancement #growth #human #important

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.


— Leon Kass


#about #altogether #children #controversy #important

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.


— Leon Kass


#benefits #biomedical #clear #hazards #less

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.


— Leon Kass


#evolved #human #human animal #preeminently #social

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.


— Leon Kass


#area #genetics #important #infancy #more

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.


— Leon Kass


#right #so-called #unlimited

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.


— Leon Kass


#just #life #machinery #technical






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Leon R. While biotechnology offers great promise for health care it has applications for "many other ends good ones and bad. Kass places "special value on the natural human cycle of birth procreation and death" and views death as a "necessary and desirable end" and the human and human aspirations that are derived from it.

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Kass is currently the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the College and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and the Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include Toward A More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs; The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of our Nature; Life Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics; The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis; and What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story Speech and Song.

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