Leon Richard Kass Quotes

Leon Richard Kass (49)

Birth:	12th February, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Educator, Physician, Scientist

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• What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

  Leon Richard Kass

• We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

  Leon Richard Kass

• We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn’t have a choice.

  Leon Richard Kass

• We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

  Leon Richard Kass

• We know next to nothing of what we’re going to know in 20 or 50 years.

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• We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

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• We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

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• There’s an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

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• There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

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• There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

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• The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

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• The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

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• The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

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• The neuroscience area – which is absolutely in its infancy – is much more important than genetics.

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• The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

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• The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

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• The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

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• Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

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• S*xuality itself means mortality – equally for both man and woman.

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• Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

  Leon Richard Kass