Leon Kass

"The president's philosopher"

For his students and readers, Leon Kass has laid out a path of inquiry showing that those questions that bedevil us most today have been with us for countless generations, and have to do not with the latest modern excess, but with man’s unchanging nature, wants, needs, and potential. It is a path he pursues by expecting the best of those who travel it with him and those who have traveled it before, and so drawing the best out of both. And it is a path that opens with a question: How does man thrive?

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kass

https://contemporarythinkers.org/leon-kass/

According to Leon Kass, 17 has some significant meaning in the book of Genesis.

Straussian