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In the age of biotechnical enhancement, how are we to protect ourselves as patients, and how are we to protect ourselves from our own desires?
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December 2007 |
Leon R. Kass |
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Modern scientific reason is an immensely powerful tool that can explain only a narrow sliver of our existence.
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April 2007 |
Leon R. Kass |
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There is no solution to the problems of debility and death, but there are better and worse ways
of thinking about them.
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January 2006 |
Eric Cohen and Leon R. Kass |
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The genetic genie, first unbottled to treat disease, is increasingly going its own way, posing dangers to our humanity that we seem powerless to address.
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September 1999 |
Leon R. Kass |
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The biblical patriarch's roamcne with Rachel tells us much about the power of eros--but even more about divine purpose.
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March 1999 |
Leon R. Kass |
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That we die is certain.
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December 1996 |
Leon R. Kass and Nelson Lund |
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All morally serious people care generally about justice.
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July 1996 |
Leon R. Kass |
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A core document of Western civilization, the Torah or Pentateuch has at its center a set of dietary regulations, presented in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus.
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June 1994 |
Leon R. Kass |
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To assimilate or to stay apart?
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September 1993 |
Reviewed by Leon R. Kass |
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Standing in the large men's locker room of the National Capitol YMCA, getting dressed after my swim and shower, I overheard a conversation taking place out of my sight, on the other side of my row of lockers: “You wait right here; I'll be back soon, after my shower.”
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June 1992 |
Leon R. Kass |
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Ever since I was a boy, long before I had a wife and daughters, I have always thought and keenly felt that rape is a capital offense, a crime worse even than murder.
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April 1992 |
Leon R. Kass |
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Americans have always been a handy people. If know-how were virtue, we would be a nation of saints.
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December 1991 |
Leon R. Kass |
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One often hears it said, and not only by outsiders, that Judaism is a male-dominated religion that does not properly appreciate its women.
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September 1991 |
Leon R. Kass |
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“Call no man happy until he is dead.” With these deliberately paradoxical words, the ancient Athenian sage Solon reminds the self-satisfied Croesus of the perils of fortune and the need to see the end of a life before pronouncing on its happiness.
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March 1990 |
Leon R. Kass |
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These tensions between science and religion, never absent yet recently grown strong, nowadays focus mainly on the subject of evolution and its
meaning for the Bible.
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November 1988 |
Leon R. Kass |
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Every once in a while, we come upon an event of seemingly minor import which, on reflection, turns out to betoken deep and problematic truths about our culture. The "Patenting of Life" decision is such a significant event.
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December 1981 |
Leon R. Kass |
