This book sold more than 20 thousand copies, and is one of the basics on contemporary Japanese ethics. The 1994 Telecom Social Science Award winner. Dedicated to W.Olaf Stapledon. Introductory essay on life studies, particularly environmental philosophy and brain death. This is the weak point of ethics as a discipline.
Life studies is needed here, instead of ethics.
After Aum Shinrikyo's sarin gas attack in Tokyo, I wrote this book for 2 months, and this became the first volume of my lifework, Life Studies Series. I declared that I do not choose the paths of religion on the one hand, and do not choose the paths of science on the other. I go through the third way between religion and science , continuously examining myself and my attitudes in every day settings. I do not make or join a closed group. Instead, I seek someone to support each other from a distance.