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
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.
We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.