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Leon R. Kass


Born
in Chicago, The United States
February 02, 1939


American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, best known as proponent of liberal education via the "Great Books," as an opponent of human cloning, life extension and euthanasia, as a critic of certain areas of technological progress and embryo research, and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. Although Kass is often referred to as a bioethicist, he eschews the term and refers to himself as "an old-fashioned humanist. ...more

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The Hungry Soul: Eating and...
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Leading a Worthy Life: Find...
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Life Liberty & the Defense ...
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Founding God's Nation: Read...
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Toward a More Natural Scien...
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The Ethics of Human Cloning
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Human Cloning and Human Dig...
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“Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.”
― Leon Kass
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“Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.”
― Leon R. Kass
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“Why does the benefactor love the recipient more than the recipient loves the benefactor? Because the benefactor lives in the recipient, the way in which the poet lives in the poem.”
― Leon Kass
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