02933nam 2200613Ia 450 991096720780332120200520144314.0979876518447997866139117801-283-59933-30-7391-4161-9(CKB)2670000000241775(EBL)1021878(OCoLC)855502121(SSID)ssj0000719964(PQKBManifestationID)12340510(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000719964(PQKBWorkID)10662162(PQKB)11589228(Au-PeEL)EBL1021878(CaPaEBR)ebr10602262(CaONFJC)MIL391178(MiAaPQ)EBC1021878(EXLCZ)99267000000024177520100224d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrApples of gold in pictures of silver honoring the work of Leon R. Kass /Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, and Adam SchulmanLanham, Md. Lexington Booksc20101 online resource (307 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-4159-7 0-7391-4160-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Skeptics14: The God-Seeking Animal15: The Traditional Animal; Courses Taught by Leon R. Kass; Published Writings of Leon R. Kass; Index; About the ContributorsFor 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.PhilosophyPhilosophy.191Levin Yuval1844255Kass Leon503930Merrill Thomas W(Thomas Westneat),1974-1844256Schulman Adam1173238MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967207803321Apples of gold in pictures of silver4426627UNINA