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Life Studies for Beginners
: A Philosophy of Life for Facing Oneself
(2005)

Masahiro Morioka

Introductory lectures on spiritual care for terminally ill patients, the relationship between parents and children, conditional love, painless civilization, feminism, eugenic thought, disability, and so on. A handbook for beginners in life studies.

This book was published for the general public who are interested in philosophical and ethical issues in contemporary society. This book also includes a summary of my books, Life Studies Approaches to Bioethics, and Painless Civilization.


Preface

Chapter 1  Understanding Life

Chapter 2  How to Think about "Conditional Love"?

Chapter 3  Escape from Compassionate Control

Chapter 4  The Fate of Painless Civilization

Chapter 5  "Social Withdrawal" and Painless Civilization

Chapter 6  Why is Life Studies Needed?

Chapter 7  A Dialogue with the Life of "the Dead"

Chapter 8  How to Fight against Disempowerment?

Postscript  A Philosophy of Life for Facing Oneself


Publication Data

Transview Publications, Tokyo, July 10 ,2005, 194 pages, 1600 yen, written in Japanese.

Japanese website of this book