3 Quotes & Sayings By Leon Kass

Leon R. Kass was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.S. and M.D Read more

degrees from Northwestern University and an M.A. and Ph.D .in philosophy from Yale University, where he studied under Hans-Georg Gadamer and Richard Rorty.He is a professor of health policy and political philosophy at the Department of Health Care Policy at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; a professor of bioethics at the Committee on Bioethics, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies; and a Fellow at the Claremont Institute for Theological Inquiry (CITI). Kass is also Director Emeritus of the Hastings Center (a bioethics research institute) and a Senior Scholar at the National Center for Science Education (a program for critical thinking about science).

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Birthright Israel, a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in Israel through educational programs for adults as well as a Senior Advisor to Birthright USA, a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in America through educational programs for adults as well as a Senior Advisor to Birthright USA, a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in America through educational programs for adults as well as a Senior Advisor to Birthright USA, a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in America through educational programs for adults as well as a Senior Advisor to Birthright USA, a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in America through educational programs for adults as well as a Senior Advisor to Birthright USA, a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in America through educational programs for adults as well as a Senior Advisor to Birthright Israel ,a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in Israel through educational programs for adults as well as a Senior Advisor to Birthright Israel ,a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in Israel through educational programs for adults as well as a Senior Advisor to Birthright Israel ,a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in Israel through educational programs for adults as well as a Senior Advisor to Birthright Israel ,a foundation promoting opportunities to experience Judaism in Israel through educational programs for adults

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I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. Leon Kass
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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. Leon Kass