Leon Kass Quotes

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

  Leon Kass

  Disposition, Machinery

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• Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

  Leon Kass

  Powerful, Example, Cloning

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• Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

  Leon Kass

  Promise, Suffering, Disease

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• Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

  Leon Kass

  Hands, Slippery Slope, Boundaries

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

  Leon Kass

  Powerful, Progress, Hazards

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• Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

  Leon Kass

  Giving, Accomplishment, Religion

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

  Leon Kass

  Innovation, Growth, Important

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• Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

  Leon Kass

  Technology, People, Sides

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• I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

  Leon Kass

  Cloning, Human Cloning, Humans

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

  Leon Kass

  Thinking, Way, Ethics

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• Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

  Leon Kass

  Soul, Forgotten, Shallow

  Leon Kass, James Q. Wilson (1998). “The Ethics of Human Cloning”, p.19, American Enterprise Institute

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• One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

  Leon Kass

  Past, Looks, Century

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

  Leon Kass

  Animal, Injustice, Social

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• It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

  Leon Kass

  Cloning, Argument, Relation

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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.

  Leon Kass

  World, Ancient, Given

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

  Leon Kass

  Children, Abortion, Important

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• In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

  Leon Kass

  Pregnancy, Abortion, Fetus

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• Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

  Leon Kass

  Children, Parent, Looks

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

  Leon Kass

  Infancy Is, Important, Genetics

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• I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

  Leon Kass

  Respect, Responsibility, People

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

  Leon Kass

  Baby, Hype, Perspective

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• 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.

  Leon Kass

  Jobs, Decision, President

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

  Leon Kass

  Wise, Engineering, Talking

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

  Leon Kass

  Years, Next, Knows

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• Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

  Leon Kass

  Brain, Mind, Genetics

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