Article: A Probing Philosophical Physician's Thoughts for Food: Defining

David Klinghoffer
Forward
07-29-1994
A Probing Philosophical Physician's Thoughts for Food: Defining People as. More Than Eating Machines

There is something appealingly modest about medical doctors. Unlike doctors of philosophy, who dream up doctrines and ask that we view the world of flesh and bone in accordance with their philosophy, M.D.s draw their conclusions from flesh and bone and the world itself -- the "bottom-up" approach, as the physicist John Polkinghorne has put it. Leon Kass, a medical professor in the Committee for Social Thought at the University of Chicago, tries out the bottom-up approach on a very modest subject: eating. While this is in part a book of philosophy -- with ...

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