Start from/toward My Own Life

1) My own life as a starting point and the ultimate end
The most important thing for life studies is that one's own life should be both the beginning and the end of life studies. In life studies we should never detach ourselves from the problems and think ourselves as exceptions. Knowledge or discussion completely separated from one's own life should not be included in life studies. Mere analysis of ethical concepts or social structure cannot constitute life studies. Instead, for example, a private narrative of my own experiences is a good starting point for life studies analysis of human psychology and ethics. I performed this process in the book How to Live in a Post-religious Age and Painless Civilization. Life studies comes close to literature in this sense. Subjective knowledge is as important as objective knowledge in life studies. We need to explore the ways to share subjective knowledge among us.

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What is Life Studies
(2004)
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