Leon Kass

Conversations with Bill Kristol - December 2015. In this conversation, Kass recounts how he turned from the study of medicine to an examination of the moral questions and problems that modern science and technology pose for human life. Kass suggests that science, for all of the benefits it has brought to us, may not offer an adequate account of life as we experience it. Kristol and Kass also discuss the Bible as a source of wisdom and the similarities and differences between the Biblical view of man and the one found in Greek philosophy.

Leon Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and in the College at the University of Chicago. He was the chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. He has been engaged for more than 40 years with ethical and philosophical issues raised by biomedical advances and, more recently, with broader moral and cultural issues. His most recent book, What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song, seeks to promote American identity, character and citizenship.

External Links

• The New Atlantis - Listing of Leon R. Kass Books
• Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg: Leon Kass on Politics as Moral Endeavor
• Leon Kass on Wikipedia