Leon Kass Quotes
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.
We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?
