Associate Professor

Department of Applied Philosophy and Classics
(Ethics)

E-mail: yugoto10[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bioethics, Information Ethics

• Nihilism
• Being
• Nothing
• Life
• Death
• Nietzsche
• Heidegger
• Bioethics
• Information Ethics
• Technology

I am researching the problem of ‘nihilism’, referring mainly to the thought of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Moreover, I am examining ethical issues about life and death of our time as a bioethical theme and ethical issues about information technology such as the Internet and smartphone as an information ethical theme.

• Ethics of Being-Affirmation I: Question from Nihilism, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2017.
• Introduction to Information Ethics, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2004[Co-authored].
• The Internet as the Amplification Equipment of Discord: An Approach from Heidegger’s Theory of Technology, Praxis, vol.18, pp.39-48, 2017.
• Against the Denial of Life : An Attempt at Criticism of Abortion, Igaku-Tetsugaku Igaku-Rinri: Annals of the Japanese Association for Philosophical and Ethical Researches of Medicine, 26, pp.31-40, 2008.
• Can Spiritual Pain be Healed? : On the Turning of Outlook on Life and Death, Igaku-Tetsugaku Igaku-Rinri: Annals of the Japanese Association for Philosophical and Ethical Researches of Medicine, 23, pp.65-75, 2005.
• “Overcoming” or “Cancellation” of Nihilism in Nietzsche and Heidegger, RINRIGAKU-Nenpo: Annals of Ethics, 47, pp.125-138, 1998.