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Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass

Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass

by Adam Schulman (Author), YuvalLevin (Author), ThomasWMerrill (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

For more than forty years Leon R. Kass has been a prolific and distinguished writer, an outstanding teacher of the humanities, and a wise interpreter of the moral implications of modern science. In Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver, fifteen of his colleagues, students, and friends celebrate his life's work with a collection of essays on themes and issues that have been of central concern to his scholarship.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 296
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 01 Aug 2010
ISBN 10: 0739141600
ISBN 13: 9780739141601

Media Reviews
This book is a liberal education in itself. The friends and students of Leon Kass have written engagingly and searchingly about literature, politics, science, philosophy, and God in the generous, humane, and dignified spirit of their philosopher-physician-scientist mentor. Each and every chapter is a gem; my compliments to the editors for paying such meticulous attention to detail and form. -- Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College
I don't know that any worldly honor is sufficiently lofty to do justice to the intellectual achievements and public contributions of Leon Kass. If one comes close, however, surely it is this splendid collection of essays by his admirers, associates, and former students. Readers who, like Dr. Kass himself, are true philosophers-lovers of wisdom-will find in this volume much to love. -- Robert P. George, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School; McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
A spectacular achievement. Leon Kass's students and friends have done him, and themselves, proud. The consistently high quality of these diverse essays-some of them virtual apples of gold themselves-makes this volume a fitting tribute to a stellar thinker and gifted teacher. -- William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard
Author Bio
Yuval Levin is editor of National Affairs and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. Thomas W. Merrill is assistant professor of government at American University in Washington, DC, and was a senior research analyst at the PresidentOs Council on Bioethics. Adam Schulman is a tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis, and was a senior research consultant at the PresidentOs Council on Bioethics.