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Leon Kass

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The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.


— Leon Kass


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There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.


— Leon Kass


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There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.


— Leon Kass


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There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.


— Leon Kass


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We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.


— Leon Kass


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We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.


— Leon Kass


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We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.


— Leon Kass


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We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.


— Leon Kass


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What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?


— Leon Kass


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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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