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20 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y [v] (2003-2004)
The Career of Leon Kass

handle is hein.journals/jchlp20 and id is 5 raw text is: DEDICATORY ESSAY THE CAREER OF LEON KASS* Harvey Flaumenhaft What has gone into making the remarkable career of Leon Kass? In sketching an answer to that question, it will be helpful for me to take account of what he himself has publicly had to say about it. I shall draw as well, after almost fifty years of close friendship with him, upon some memories of my own, keeping in mind that on one occasion when, for special reasons, he publicly embarked upon some autobiographical reflections, he said: I generally recoil from public trafficking in private matters. Leon said this while delivering some revealing remarks in October of 2001, when he received an honorary doctorate from the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Other revealing remarks by him are quoted by the Chicago Tribune in an article published in August of 2001, when he was named chair of the President's Council on Bioethics. In 2003, he was provocatively autobiographical at Harvard University, when he received the Centennial Medal from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Earlier, in the preface to the first book that he published, the 1985 collection of essays on biology and human affairs called Toward a More Natural Science, feeling a need to acknowledge debts, and thus to let some considerations of propriety override other considerations of propriety as well as those of privacy, he provided a public glimpse at private matters. Apart from considerations of propriety and privacy, however, there are reasons to be wary of concentrating on where a thinker's coming from, instead of on his thought. If there's anything that one can learn from Leon's eloquent, insightful writings-especially his most philosophic work, The Hungry Soul, his learned meditation on the This essay is in accordance with the author's preference and does not conform to the standards in THE BLUEBOOK: A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF CITATION (Columbia Law Review Ass'n et al. eds., 17th ed. 2000). Dean of the College, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland

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