I am going to rewrite it and publish somewhere soon. Study as wisdom Life studies is a kind of vivid movement of our wisdom in which we contemplate the reality of our life and death, struggle against our inner desire, and try to find a way of resolving contemporary issues such as genetic technology starting to deeply manipulate human life, the exploitation against the natural environment and our own bodies, the psychological crisis of younger generations, and many other problems we ourselves have created through the centuries. This is the main reason I chose the word life studies instead of bioethics in my first book, An Invitation to the Study of Life . Life studies has close relation to feminism, disability studies, deep ecology, philosophical counseling, and civilization studies. It is our modern civilization that has created contemporary issues on bioethics, environmental crisis, and today s psychological problems.
Modern civilization is based on scientific technology and capitalism.
Life studies connects the criticism of modern civilization with these issues concerning life, death, and nature. Life studies throws light on the essence of modern civilization, and tries to show a way of overcoming the negative effects of scientific technology and capitalism. I tried to figure out the essence of brain death through the criticism of modern civilization and modern science in my book, Brain Dead Person , and several essays, for example, Bioethics and Japanese Culture , and Two Aspects of Brain Dead Being . Meaning of life Our life in this world is limited. We live this limited life and die sooner or later.