Books
The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Comment on “The Giving Tree”
– Contribution to Symposium, First Things, 49:42-43, January 1995.Excerpt: Several reasons could be offered for reading The Giving Tree to one’s children. It conveys important truths about our human situation and about human giving. It might… More
The Permanent Limitations of Biology
– In William A. Rusher, ed., The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1995), 120-141.Whither Medicine? Marginal Musing About Central Questions
– Proceedings of the National Meeting on M.D./Ph.D. Education and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1996), 23-39.The Troubled Dream of Nature as a Moral Guide
– Hastings Center Report 26 (6):22-24, November/December 1996.The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
Preventing a Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Human Cloning Now
– The New Republic, May 21, 2001.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century, successfully waged against totalitarianisms first right and then left, seems to have blinded many people to a… More
Brave New Biology: The Challenge for Human Dignity
– London: The Institute of United States Studies, 2002.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century and the new global struggle against terrorism and fanaticism seems to have blinded many people to a deep truth… More
Book Discussion on Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity
– CSPAN, October 25, 2002.Professor Leon Kass discussed his book Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics, published by Encounter Books, at the Commonwealth Club of… More
Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, October 2003.Excerpt: Biotechnology offers exciting and promising prospects for healing the sick and relieving the suffering. But exactly because of their impressive powers to alter the workings of body… More
The Pursuit of Biohappiness
– Washington Post, October 16, 2003.Excerpt: By all accounts, we are entering the golden age of biotechnology. Advances in genetics, drug discovery and regenerative medicine promise cures for dreaded diseases and relief for… More
Being Human: Readings from the President’s Council on Bioethics
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, December 2003.Summary: Increasingly, advances in biomedical science and technology raise profound challenges to familiar human practices and ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. It is no wonder, then,… More
How Brave a New World?
– 2007 Convocation Address, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland. Reprinted in Society 45 (1): 5-8 (February 2008).Excerpt: Surveying the world you graduates are about to enter, I am reminded of the ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” My own time has been interesting… More
Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul
– Azure 5768, no. 32 (Spring 2008).Abstract: Science cannot answer the most essential questions about the nature of man.
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Hebrew Bible
– Video conversation with Leon R. Kass, Mosaic, July 2013.Last month, Mosaic visited Leon R. Kass, author of our June essay, “The Ten Commandments,” in his Washington, D.C. office. We spoke first about the passions, the human heart and its… More
Essays
The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Comment on “The Giving Tree”
– Contribution to Symposium, First Things, 49:42-43, January 1995.Excerpt: Several reasons could be offered for reading The Giving Tree to one’s children. It conveys important truths about our human situation and about human giving. It might… More
The Permanent Limitations of Biology
– In William A. Rusher, ed., The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1995), 120-141.Whither Medicine? Marginal Musing About Central Questions
– Proceedings of the National Meeting on M.D./Ph.D. Education and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1996), 23-39.The Troubled Dream of Nature as a Moral Guide
– Hastings Center Report 26 (6):22-24, November/December 1996.The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
Preventing a Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Human Cloning Now
– The New Republic, May 21, 2001.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century, successfully waged against totalitarianisms first right and then left, seems to have blinded many people to a… More
Brave New Biology: The Challenge for Human Dignity
– London: The Institute of United States Studies, 2002.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century and the new global struggle against terrorism and fanaticism seems to have blinded many people to a deep truth… More
Book Discussion on Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity
– CSPAN, October 25, 2002.Professor Leon Kass discussed his book Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics, published by Encounter Books, at the Commonwealth Club of… More
Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, October 2003.Excerpt: Biotechnology offers exciting and promising prospects for healing the sick and relieving the suffering. But exactly because of their impressive powers to alter the workings of body… More
The Pursuit of Biohappiness
– Washington Post, October 16, 2003.Excerpt: By all accounts, we are entering the golden age of biotechnology. Advances in genetics, drug discovery and regenerative medicine promise cures for dreaded diseases and relief for… More
Being Human: Readings from the President’s Council on Bioethics
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, December 2003.Summary: Increasingly, advances in biomedical science and technology raise profound challenges to familiar human practices and ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. It is no wonder, then,… More
How Brave a New World?
– 2007 Convocation Address, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland. Reprinted in Society 45 (1): 5-8 (February 2008).Excerpt: Surveying the world you graduates are about to enter, I am reminded of the ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” My own time has been interesting… More
Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul
– Azure 5768, no. 32 (Spring 2008).Abstract: Science cannot answer the most essential questions about the nature of man.
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Hebrew Bible
– Video conversation with Leon R. Kass, Mosaic, July 2013.Last month, Mosaic visited Leon R. Kass, author of our June essay, “The Ten Commandments,” in his Washington, D.C. office. We spoke first about the passions, the human heart and its… More
Commentary
The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Comment on “The Giving Tree”
– Contribution to Symposium, First Things, 49:42-43, January 1995.Excerpt: Several reasons could be offered for reading The Giving Tree to one’s children. It conveys important truths about our human situation and about human giving. It might… More
The Permanent Limitations of Biology
– In William A. Rusher, ed., The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1995), 120-141.Whither Medicine? Marginal Musing About Central Questions
– Proceedings of the National Meeting on M.D./Ph.D. Education and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1996), 23-39.The Troubled Dream of Nature as a Moral Guide
– Hastings Center Report 26 (6):22-24, November/December 1996.The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
Preventing a Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Human Cloning Now
– The New Republic, May 21, 2001.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century, successfully waged against totalitarianisms first right and then left, seems to have blinded many people to a… More
Brave New Biology: The Challenge for Human Dignity
– London: The Institute of United States Studies, 2002.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century and the new global struggle against terrorism and fanaticism seems to have blinded many people to a deep truth… More
Book Discussion on Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity
– CSPAN, October 25, 2002.Professor Leon Kass discussed his book Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics, published by Encounter Books, at the Commonwealth Club of… More
Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, October 2003.Excerpt: Biotechnology offers exciting and promising prospects for healing the sick and relieving the suffering. But exactly because of their impressive powers to alter the workings of body… More
The Pursuit of Biohappiness
– Washington Post, October 16, 2003.Excerpt: By all accounts, we are entering the golden age of biotechnology. Advances in genetics, drug discovery and regenerative medicine promise cures for dreaded diseases and relief for… More
Being Human: Readings from the President’s Council on Bioethics
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, December 2003.Summary: Increasingly, advances in biomedical science and technology raise profound challenges to familiar human practices and ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. It is no wonder, then,… More
How Brave a New World?
– 2007 Convocation Address, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland. Reprinted in Society 45 (1): 5-8 (February 2008).Excerpt: Surveying the world you graduates are about to enter, I am reminded of the ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” My own time has been interesting… More
Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul
– Azure 5768, no. 32 (Spring 2008).Abstract: Science cannot answer the most essential questions about the nature of man.
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Hebrew Bible
– Video conversation with Leon R. Kass, Mosaic, July 2013.Last month, Mosaic visited Leon R. Kass, author of our June essay, “The Ten Commandments,” in his Washington, D.C. office. We spoke first about the passions, the human heart and its… More
Multimedia
The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Comment on “The Giving Tree”
– Contribution to Symposium, First Things, 49:42-43, January 1995.Excerpt: Several reasons could be offered for reading The Giving Tree to one’s children. It conveys important truths about our human situation and about human giving. It might… More
The Permanent Limitations of Biology
– In William A. Rusher, ed., The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1995), 120-141.Whither Medicine? Marginal Musing About Central Questions
– Proceedings of the National Meeting on M.D./Ph.D. Education and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1996), 23-39.The Troubled Dream of Nature as a Moral Guide
– Hastings Center Report 26 (6):22-24, November/December 1996.The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
Preventing a Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Human Cloning Now
– The New Republic, May 21, 2001.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century, successfully waged against totalitarianisms first right and then left, seems to have blinded many people to a… More
Brave New Biology: The Challenge for Human Dignity
– London: The Institute of United States Studies, 2002.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century and the new global struggle against terrorism and fanaticism seems to have blinded many people to a deep truth… More
Book Discussion on Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity
– CSPAN, October 25, 2002.Professor Leon Kass discussed his book Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics, published by Encounter Books, at the Commonwealth Club of… More
Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, October 2003.Excerpt: Biotechnology offers exciting and promising prospects for healing the sick and relieving the suffering. But exactly because of their impressive powers to alter the workings of body… More
The Pursuit of Biohappiness
– Washington Post, October 16, 2003.Excerpt: By all accounts, we are entering the golden age of biotechnology. Advances in genetics, drug discovery and regenerative medicine promise cures for dreaded diseases and relief for… More
Being Human: Readings from the President’s Council on Bioethics
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, December 2003.Summary: Increasingly, advances in biomedical science and technology raise profound challenges to familiar human practices and ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. It is no wonder, then,… More
How Brave a New World?
– 2007 Convocation Address, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland. Reprinted in Society 45 (1): 5-8 (February 2008).Excerpt: Surveying the world you graduates are about to enter, I am reminded of the ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” My own time has been interesting… More
Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul
– Azure 5768, no. 32 (Spring 2008).Abstract: Science cannot answer the most essential questions about the nature of man.
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Hebrew Bible
– Video conversation with Leon R. Kass, Mosaic, July 2013.Last month, Mosaic visited Leon R. Kass, author of our June essay, “The Ten Commandments,” in his Washington, D.C. office. We spoke first about the passions, the human heart and its… More
Teaching
The Problem of Technology
– In Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Technology and the Western Political Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 1-24.Comment on “The Giving Tree”
– Contribution to Symposium, First Things, 49:42-43, January 1995.Excerpt: Several reasons could be offered for reading The Giving Tree to one’s children. It conveys important truths about our human situation and about human giving. It might… More
The Permanent Limitations of Biology
– In William A. Rusher, ed., The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1995), 120-141.Whither Medicine? Marginal Musing About Central Questions
– Proceedings of the National Meeting on M.D./Ph.D. Education and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1996), 23-39.The Troubled Dream of Nature as a Moral Guide
– Hastings Center Report 26 (6):22-24, November/December 1996.The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
– University Of Chicago Press, May, 1999.The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and… More
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
– University of Notre Dame Press, February 2000.Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It… More
Preventing a Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Human Cloning Now
– The New Republic, May 21, 2001.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century, successfully waged against totalitarianisms first right and then left, seems to have blinded many people to a… More
Brave New Biology: The Challenge for Human Dignity
– London: The Institute of United States Studies, 2002.Excerpt: The urgency of the great political struggles of the twentieth century and the new global struggle against terrorism and fanaticism seems to have blinded many people to a deep truth… More
Book Discussion on Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity
– CSPAN, October 25, 2002.Professor Leon Kass discussed his book Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics, published by Encounter Books, at the Commonwealth Club of… More
Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, October 2003.Excerpt: Biotechnology offers exciting and promising prospects for healing the sick and relieving the suffering. But exactly because of their impressive powers to alter the workings of body… More
The Pursuit of Biohappiness
– Washington Post, October 16, 2003.Excerpt: By all accounts, we are entering the golden age of biotechnology. Advances in genetics, drug discovery and regenerative medicine promise cures for dreaded diseases and relief for… More
Being Human: Readings from the President’s Council on Bioethics
– The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, December 2003.Summary: Increasingly, advances in biomedical science and technology raise profound challenges to familiar human practices and ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. It is no wonder, then,… More
How Brave a New World?
– 2007 Convocation Address, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland. Reprinted in Society 45 (1): 5-8 (February 2008).Excerpt: Surveying the world you graduates are about to enter, I am reminded of the ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” My own time has been interesting… More
Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul
– Azure 5768, no. 32 (Spring 2008).Abstract: Science cannot answer the most essential questions about the nature of man.
A Truer Humanism
– Azure 5769, no. 34 (Autumn 2008).Abstract: Science gives us many gifts, but it cannot keep us from losing our souls in the bargain.
The God-Seeking Animal by Eric Cohen
– Eric Cohen, First Things, April, 2010.Excerpt: On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass’s stewardship, there is a picture of a ballerina… More
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
– Ryan T. Anderson, First Things, February 2011.Excerpt: Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to produce some of the finest reflections on… More
Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Hebrew Bible
– Video conversation with Leon R. Kass, Mosaic, July 2013.Last month, Mosaic visited Leon R. Kass, author of our June essay, “The Ten Commandments,” in his Washington, D.C. office. We spoke first about the passions, the human heart and its… More