Philosophical study of life, death, and nature

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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