Leon R. Kass
Addie Clark Harding Professor of Social Thought and in the College
Selected Publications
- Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs (1985);
- The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (1994; 2nd ed. 1999);
- The Ethics of Human Cloning, with James Q. Wilson (1998);
- Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying, ed. with Amy A. Kass (2000);
- Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (2002);
- The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (2003).
Courses Taught
- Genesis
- Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
- Nature: Aristotle and Descartes
- Plato: Symposium
- Human Nature and Human Good: Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
- Science and Morals: Friends or Foes?
- Ethics of Everyday Life: Courtship
Leon Kass