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Questions to Guide Your Reading
Leon Kass, "Mortality and Morality: The Virtues of Finitude" 1. Why, according to Leon Kass, is it important for us to become more thoughtful about the meaning of mortality? 2. What, according to Leon Kass, are some of the social consequences of longer life (perhaps eternal life) for human beings? 3. Why is the question of how many more years we should extend life a difficult one? 4. Why, on Kass's view, is the decrepitude of aging necessary to the process of dying? 5. What, according to Dr. Kass, are the "virtues of mortality"? 6. What is it, according to Kass, that we really long for? Why is perpetual life not a sufficient answer for this longing? 7. In the end, what relationship does Kass see between "mortality" and "morality"? |