Exceeding the Society People Fall Togther:
Toward Unconditional Life Affirmation!

■NOZAKI Yasunobu March 15, 2015　Exceeding the Society People Fall Togther: Toward Unconditional Life Affirmation!，Chikuma Shobo, 240p.　ISBN-10: 448001618X ISBN-13: 978-4480016188　1500+　[amazon]／[kinokuniya] ※ ds.

■Contents

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Is "being hard to live" your fault? This society selects our lives, grades them and requires sacrifice. This is a book with hope that focuses on issues disabled persons have and presents ethics which resists the "structure of sacrifices".

■Table of Contents

Introduction　011

　　■ Sacrifices and Ethics
　　■ Issues of Disabled Persons and Sacrifices
　　■ Organization of This Book

Chapter 1　Attempt to Unconditionally Affirm People's Lives　017

　1　What Is Unconditional Life Affirmation?　018
　　■ Toward Ethics which Affirms Existence Itself
　　■ Conditions Are not Required to Affirm Existence
　　■ My "Reality"
　　■ Thoughts of "Sacrifices" which Impose Conditions on Survival

　2　Problems of Utilitarianism　028
　　■ Thoughts of Utilitarianism which Permits Minorities' Sacrifices
　　■ Solving the Dilemma of Reality?
　　■ Utilitarianism that Clears Debt to Bear
　　■ Ethical Rule Making that Takes Away Fundamental Freedom
　　■ Confusion of Reality and Ethics

Chapter 2　What Is Ethics?　047

　1　What Kind of Study Is Ethics?　048
　　■ Image of Ethics
　　■ Ethics Is not Social Politics
　　■ Ethics Questions "What to Do to Have a Rich Life with Others"

　2　Who Are Others We Have a Rich Life with?　055
　　■ Who Are Others We Should Live Richly with?
　　■ The Problem whether the Society Accepts a Person as a Member of the Society
　　■ Does the Existence that Is Left by the Society Have to Accuse?
　　■ Response to Call from Others
　　■ Importance of Being Logical

　3　Living "Together"　070
　　■ Japanese Society which Encourages (People's) "Falling Together"
　　■ Japanese Society which Produces (People's) "Falling Together" as a Result of Codependence
　　■ Direct Involvement in the "Field"
　　■ Toward the Society Everyone Can Support

　4　What Is "Richness"?　084
　　■ "Living Richly"
　　■ Economics and Utilitarianism
　　■ "Richness" which Rejects Supremacy of Economic Growth
　　■ Sacrifices and "Richness"

Chapter 3　Considering the Issues of Disabled Persons as the Issues of Sacrifices　099

　1　Why Are the Issues of Disabled Persons the Issues of Sacrifices?　100
　　■ Japanese Society which Forces Everyone's Tolerance
　　■ The Essence of the Issues is the Issues of Sacrifices
　　■ What Is "Rationality" of "Reasonable Accommodation"?

　2　Selecting Lives that Are Delivered　108
　　■ What Does Prenatal Testing Enable Us to Find Out?
　　■ What Are the Issues of Prenatal Diagnosis?
　　■ Questioning the View of Disability on the Side of Medical Staffs
　　■ Inadequate Social Support
　　■ Eugenic Thoughts which Select Lives
　　■ Noninvasive Prenatal Testing and Eugenic Thoughts
　　■ What Are Issues of the Japan Obstetric Compensation System for Cerebral Palsy?
　　■ What Are the Real Issues of Prenatal Testing?

　3　Death with Dignity and Sacrifices　122
　　■ What Is Euthanasia / Death with Dignity?
　　■ Euthanasia / Death with Dignity in Japan
　　■ Euthanasia / Death with Dignity in Other Countries
　　■ Insistence of Japan Society for Dying with Dignity
　　■ Counterattack against Insistence of Death with Dignity
　　■ Considering Death with Dignity as Issues of Sacrifices

　4　Japanese Education which Selects Lives　138
　　■ "Developmental Approarch" and "Symbiosis Education"
　　■ Toward a Different Way from "Anti-developmental Approarch"
　　■ Development as "Meeting the Existence that Is Different from Me"
　　■ What Are Original Purposes of Education?

Chapter 4　Re-construction of Ethics　155

　1　Triage Issue　156
　　■ What Is Triage?
　　■ Question whether "Triage Can Be Accepted Ethically"
　　■ Is It Delusive to Accept the Issue as a Way of Response?
　　■ What Should Be Questioned Truly Is the Acts of Persons who Are not Victims of a Disaster

　2　Japanese Society that Force People in a Corner and People who Are Pushed into a Corner　165
　　■ Deciding by Oneself with Supports
　　■ What Do You Think about Crimes of "People who Are Pushed into a Corner"?
　　■ People who Are Pushed into a Corner Have Nothing Left to Say except that They Will Do Anything
　　■ Criticizing Japanese Society that Causes Division

　3　Free Self and Responsibility　177
　　■ Existence of Others that Enables Myself to Exist
　　■ "Freedom of Choice and Behavior" and "Fundamental Freedom"
　　■ Occurrence of "Freedom" Known by Response to Others
　　■ Responsibility to Others and Free Self
　　■ There Is no End to Subjectification
　　■ Resisting Japanese Society which Rejects Subjectification

　4　Ethics which Confronts Authority　189
　　■ "Dignity" of Lives and "Lives"
　　■ Authority that Selects "Lives" of Disabled Persons
　　■ Thinking of "Anyhow"
　　■ Is It Really the Issue that It Has Nothing to Do with Me?
　　■ Resisting Sacrifices of "Lives"

　5　How Should We Resist the Reality that Forces "Anyhow"?　202
　　■ "Irresponsible Society" in which Different Opinions Are Restricted
　　■ How to Resist Authority: From My Own Experiences
　　■ It Is not "Disdain for the Public"
　　■ Disabled People's Movements to Acquire the Transportation Access Rights
　　■ Meaning of Active Involvement in Social Movements

Conclusion　Ethics Resisting Japanese Society that Sacrifices Disabled People　219

Afterword　225