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Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver : Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass.
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 l...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: The Career of Leon Kass; 1: The Homecoming of Penelope; 2: The World through Ben's Bifocals; 3: Medicalizing Childhood; 4: Washington Square; 5: The Silence of the Spartan; 6: Torah Transformed; 7: Leon Kass and the Poets; 8: Toward a Richer Public Bioethics; 9: Philosophic Anthropology in Rousseau and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas; 10: Self-knowledge and Moral Seriousness in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; 11: From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires; 12: Fraternity in Antigone; 13: Children of Skeptics.
- 14: The God-Seeking Animal15: The Traditional Animal; Courses Taught by Leon R. Kass; Published Writings of Leon R. Kass; Index; About the Contributors.