Leon Kass
Leon Kass
Leon Richard Kassis an 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth12 February 1939
CountryUnited States of America
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The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.