Leon Kass Quotes

• The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

  Leon Kass

  Disposition, Machinery

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• La clonación representa un ejemplo muy claro, contundente e inmediato en el que corremos el peligro de convertir la procreación en fabricación.

  Leon Kass

  Powerful, Example, Cloning

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• Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

  Leon Kass

  Promise, Suffering, Disease

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• Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

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  Hands, Slippery Slope, Boundaries

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• Los beneficios del progreso biomédico son obvios, claros y poderosos. Los peligros son mucho menos apreciados.

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  Powerful, Progress, Hazards

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• Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

  Leon Kass

  Giving, Accomplishment, Religion

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• Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

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  Innovation, Growth, Important

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• Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

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  Technology, People, Sides

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• Me he opuesto a la clonación humana desde el principio.

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  Cloning, Human Cloning, Humans

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• The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

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  Thinking, Way, Ethics

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• Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

  Leon Kass

  Soul, Forgotten, Shallow

  Leon Kass, James Q. Wilson (1998). “The Ethics of Human Cloning”, p.19, American Enterprise Institute

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• One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

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  Past, Looks, Century

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• The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

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  Animal, Injustice, Social

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• It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

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  Cloning, Argument, Relation

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• There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

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  World, Ancient, Given

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• The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

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  Children, Abortion, Important

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• En el caso del aborto, se contrapone la vida del feto a los intereses de la mujer embarazada.

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  Pregnancy, Abortion, Fetus

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• La clonación parece una degradación de la paternidad y una perversión de la correcta relación entre padres e hijos.

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  Children, Parent, Looks

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• El área de la neurociencia -que está absolutamente en pañales- es mucho más importante que la genética.

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  Infancy Is, Important, Genetics

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• I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

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  Respect, Responsibility, People

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• Hay mucho bombo y platillo y mucho miedo ante la perspectiva de los bebés de diseño.

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  Baby, Hype, Perspective

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• Mi trabajo consiste en proporcionar al Presidente la consideración más rica posible, para que sepa lo que está en juego en cualquier decisión que tome.

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  Jobs, Decision, President

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

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  Wise, Engineering, Talking

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

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  Years, Next, Knows

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• La genética es tosca, pero la neurociencia va directamente a trabajar en el cerebro, y la mente le sigue.

  Leon Kass

  Brain, Mind, Genetics

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