Leon Kass, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Leon Kass

American academic

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1939

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: scientist, physician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Leon Kass

  • Leon Richard Kass (born February 12, 1939) is 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 old-fashioned humanist.
  • A humanist is concerned broadly with all aspects of human life, not just the ethical."Kass is currently the Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the College and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and the Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
  • His books include Toward A More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs; The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of our Nature; Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics; The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis; and What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song.
  • "For his students and readers," Yuval Levin summarizes, "Leon Kass has laid out a path of inquiry showing that those questions that bedevil us most today have been with us for countless generations, and have to do not with the latest modern excess, but with man’s unchanging nature, wants, needs, and potential.
  • It is a path...that opens with a question: How does man thrive?"

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