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

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

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

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

We do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies.
Leon Kass

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

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

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
Leon Kass

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

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?
Leon Kass