Masahiro Morioka is a Japanese philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of philosophy of life, bioethics, gender studies, media theory, and civilization studies.
18 Facts About Masahiro Morioka
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Masahiro Morioka is a professor of philosophy and ethics at Waseda University, Japan.
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Masahiro Morioka coined the term "life studies" for an integrated approach to the issues of life, death, and nature in contemporary society.
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Masahiro Morioka has published numerous academic books and articles, mainly in Japanese, and has regularly contributed commentaries and book reviews to major Japanese newspapers and magazines.
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Masahiro Morioka is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Philosophy of Life, an associate editor of Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics, and a steering committee member of the International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life.
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Masahiro Morioka published two books on bioethics, An Invitation to the Study of Life and Brain Dead Person, and moved to the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, in 1988.
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Masahiro Morioka spent one year as a visiting scholar at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, US, in 1991.
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Masahiro Morioka asserted that organs should not be harvested from small children who have been declared brain dead but his proposal was ultimately rejected by the Diet.
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Masahiro Morioka moved to the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, in 2015.
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Masahiro Morioka calls this a "human relationship oriented analysis" approach to bioethics.
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Masahiro Morioka predicted that consciousness communication would play a central role in the coming information society, and put forward the concepts of "community of anonymity" and "dream navigator".
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Masahiro Morioka calls his comprehensive approach to the issues of life, death, and nature "life studies".
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Masahiro Morioka asserts that the most important aspect of life studies is never to detach ourselves from the problems we are tackling and never to think of ourselves as exceptions; He encourages us to keep our eyes on our own desires and the evil that he believes is deeply engraved in our hearts.
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Masahiro Morioka asserts that this is a precondition of our being able to live our lives without regret.
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Masahiro Morioka asserts that our contemporary civilization is developing in the form of a "painless civilization".
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Masahiro Morioka asserts that this civilization's limitless penchant for eliminating pain and suffering makes us completely lose sight of the meaning of life that is indispensable to human beings and deprives us of the joy of life in exchange for pleasure, pleasantness, and comfort.
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Masahiro Morioka considers "birth negation" as the worst form of human evil.
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Masahiro Morioka argues that it appears on a corpse, a wooden mask, or even a tree, as a kind of personhood.