Thursday, September 02, 2010
	Biologist, physician, and professor of philosophy at University of Chicago, Leon Kass believes that naturalistic science is inadequate to explain the meaning of life. In his book The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature, he attempts to reverse the tendency toward dehumanization and reductionism in the life sciences. Kass explores how the very natural activity of eating provides clues for understanding human nature and helps guide morality and communal life. He explains how customs governing the partaking of food and dinner time conversation humanize an otherwise "animal" activity. The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (Free Press, 1994) Leon Kass has contributed to multiple editions of the Journal; click here and here for his record. In addition, Leon Kass has been featured on two MARS HILL AUDIO Conversations ("Bread and the Hungry Soul" and "Human Life, Human Dignity"), and an essay of his is part of the MARS HILL AUDIO Anthology, "The Ethics of Human Cloning." A short description of the latter is available here, while short descriptions of the former are listed here. Along with his wife, Amy, Leon Kass has also been a guest on the MARS HILL AUDIO Report, "Wandering Towards the Altar." A short description of the Report is available here. Eating Food
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