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
Leon Kass quotes about
It is not the issue I want my own work solely remembered for.
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
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.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
to consider not just the technologies ... but also to see how those things which impinge on our humanity, in fact, touch our personal aspirations, our human longings, our duties.
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
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.