Knowledge Commons | Masahiro Morioka | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/masahiromorioka/activity/ Activity feed for Masahiro Morioka. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:30:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b8df6e37d9e1625363e3734ad7224b7a Masahiro Morioka deposited Manga Introduction to Philosophy: An Exploration of Time, Existence, the Self, and the Meaning of Life in the group Philosophy of Religion https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740377/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:23:47 -0400 This is perhaps the world’s first book in which a philosopher himself illustrates his own philosophical investigation into hard problems on time, being, solipsism, and life, in the form of “Manga.” This book was originally published in Japanese in 2013 and translated into English by Robert Chapeskie in 2021.

]]> 0 70f8d6dba58ce67ecb47c6aabc9f5b05 Masahiro Morioka deposited Manga Introduction to Philosophy: An Exploration of Time, Existence, the Self, and the Meaning of Life in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740376/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:23:39 -0400 This is perhaps the world’s first book in which a philosopher himself illustrates his own philosophical investigation into hard problems on time, being, solipsism, and life, in the form of “Manga.” This book was originally published in Japanese in 2013 and translated into English by Robert Chapeskie in 2021.

]]> 0 9e8440092be3648fed808223d4e2d94b Masahiro Morioka deposited Manga Introduction to Philosophy: An Exploration of Time, Existence, the Self, and the Meaning of Life in the group Analytic Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740375/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:23:38 -0400 This is perhaps the world’s first book in which a philosopher himself illustrates his own philosophical investigation into hard problems on time, being, solipsism, and life, in the form of “Manga.” This book was originally published in Japanese in 2013 and translated into English by Robert Chapeskie in 2021.

]]> 0 d70dad1640cad16dd7593951b3268de5 Masahiro Morioka deposited Manga Introduction to Philosophy: An Exploration of Time, Existence, the Self, and the Meaning of Life https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740315/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:39:13 -0400 This is perhaps the world’s first book in which a philosopher himself illustrates his own philosophical investigation into hard problems on time, being, solipsism, and life, in the form of “Manga.” This book was originally published in Japanese in 2013 and translated into English by Robert Chapeskie in 2021.

]]> 0 6d4256d8d4e37c5ea2614db0de6f6108 Masahiro Morioka deposited Philosophy of Life in Contemporary Society in the group Public Philosophy Journal https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594637/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:29 -0500 In today’s academic philosophy, we have “philosophy of biology,” which deals with creatures’ biological phenomena, “philosophy of
death,” which concentrates on the concept of human death, and “philosophy of meaning of life,” which investigates difficult problems concerning the meaning of life and living, but we do not have "philosophy of…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d4256d8d4e37c5ea2614db0de6f6108 Masahiro Morioka deposited Philosophy of Life in Contemporary Society in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594636/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:29 -0500 In today’s academic philosophy, we have “philosophy of biology,” which deals with creatures’ biological phenomena, “philosophy of
death,” which concentrates on the concept of human death, and “philosophy of meaning of life,” which investigates difficult problems concerning the meaning of life and living, but we do not have "philosophy of…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d4256d8d4e37c5ea2614db0de6f6108 Masahiro Morioka deposited Philosophy of Life in Contemporary Society in the group Philosophy of Religion https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594635/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:29 -0500 In today’s academic philosophy, we have “philosophy of biology,” which deals with creatures’ biological phenomena, “philosophy of
death,” which concentrates on the concept of human death, and “philosophy of meaning of life,” which investigates difficult problems concerning the meaning of life and living, but we do not have "philosophy of…[Read more]

]]> 0 41dfa8fd2cfd3266176687d2633b3f85 Masahiro Morioka deposited Philosophy of Life in Contemporary Society in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594634/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:28 -0500 In today’s academic philosophy, we have “philosophy of biology,” which deals with creatures’ biological phenomena, “philosophy of
death,” which concentrates on the concept of human death, and “philosophy of meaning of life,” which investigates difficult problems concerning the meaning of life and living, but we do not have "philosophy of…[Read more]

]]> 0 41dfa8fd2cfd3266176687d2633b3f85 Masahiro Morioka deposited Philosophy of Life in Contemporary Society in the group Analytic Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594633/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:28 -0500 In today’s academic philosophy, we have “philosophy of biology,” which deals with creatures’ biological phenomena, “philosophy of
death,” which concentrates on the concept of human death, and “philosophy of meaning of life,” which investigates difficult problems concerning the meaning of life and living, but we do not have "philosophy of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8e303e1cdec928fc17fd2d59c2998db Masahiro Morioka deposited Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594631/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:20 -0500 "Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality" is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9ab0af51019ecbc067a8fda7c893924 Masahiro Morioka deposited Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594630/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:18 -0500 "Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality" is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cbf07f98c76dba3af349ad063b8bbe7 Masahiro Morioka deposited Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594629/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:17 -0500 "Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality" is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cbf07f98c76dba3af349ad063b8bbe7 Masahiro Morioka deposited Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality in the group Analytic Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594628/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:17 -0500 "Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality" is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 0207f25181ae13fe58aa786ee6be7cac Masahiro Morioka deposited Philosophy of Life in Contemporary Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594379/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:52:20 -0500 In today’s academic philosophy, we have “philosophy of biology,” which deals with creatures’ biological phenomena, “philosophy of
death,” which concentrates on the concept of human death, and “philosophy of meaning of life,” which investigates difficult problems concerning the meaning of life and living, but we do not have "philosophy of…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbcb5e53cb92c8ad772e59471b35ecaa Masahiro Morioka deposited Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594378/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:32:52 -0500 "Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality" is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e970be1b6ce094052d3f5412aa93968 Masahiro Morioka deposited The Trolley Problem and the Dropping of Atomic Bombs in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577764/ Sat, 05 Aug 2017 01:00:06 -0400 In this paper, the ethical and spiritual aspects of the trolley problem are discussed in connection with
the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. First, I show that the dropping of atomic
bombs was a typical example of the events that contained the logic of the trolley problems in their
decision-making processes and…[Read more]

]]> 0 7aed108ea51ec7a31425a5a4d53a05a4 Masahiro Morioka deposited The Trolley Problem and the Dropping of Atomic Bombs https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577540/ Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:00:22 -0400 In this paper, the ethical and spiritual aspects of the trolley problem are discussed in connection with
the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. First, I show that the dropping of atomic
bombs was a typical example of the events that contained the logic of the trolley problems in their
decision-making processes and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c43fcb6dd00e2d044a7b5a0859c9199c Masahiro Morioka deposited ENOJP2016_Manga https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569264/ Thu, 04 May 2017 05:16:27 -0400 Cartoon drawn by Masahiro Morioka for the Second Conference of European Network of Japanese Philosophy, held at Brussels in 2016.

]]> 0 2b943c4a79f2b28b5d280351e80ed481 Masahiro Morioka changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569261/ Thu, 04 May 2017 04:25:06 -0400 0 9cfbcb89205f6da3a34fcb9316b1d098 Masahiro Morioka's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569260/ Thu, 04 May 2017 04:12:36 -0400 0