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Alfons Deeken

アルフォンス・デーケン

Arufonsu Deeken

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1932-08-03 (Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany)
死没
2020-09-06 (Unknown) 88歳
国籍
Germany
言語
German, Japanese
宗教
Catholic (Jesuit)

経歴

職業
Priest, Philosopher, Emeritus Professor
活動期間
1952年〜2020年
所属
Sophia University

学歴

Fordham University
学位: Ph.D.
卒業年: 1973
国: United States
Ph.D. in Philosophy

受賞歴

American Literary Award (Ethics category)
1975
部門: 倫理部門
結果: 受賞
Global Social Welfare and Medical Award
1989
結果: 受賞
American Thanatology Foundation Award
1991
結果: 受賞
Kikuchi Kan Prize
1991
結果: 受賞
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1998
対象作品: Death Preparation Education
主催: Government of Germany
結果: 受章
Tokyo Metropolitan Cultural Award
1999
結果: 受賞
Wakatsuki Prize
1999
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

全著作

  • The Third Life: You Too Will Become Old
  • Professor Deeken's East-West Travelogue
  • Crisis and Challenge of Middle and Old Age
  • Seeking the Value of Humanity: Ethics of Max Scheler
  • Christianity and Me
  • Humor is a Wonderful Medicine for Aging and Death: Introduction to Thanatology
  • How to Face Death
  • Education about Life and Death
  • Dialogue of Light
  • Live Well, Laugh Well, Meet Good Death
  • Notebook to Love Your Life
  • Bouquet of Words That Heal the Heart
  • Future Anthropology (Co-editor)
  • Thinking about Life and Death (Co-editor)
  • On the Morning of Departure: Correspondence on Love and Death (Co-author)
  • Learning from Familiar Experiences of Death (Co-editor)
  • Teaching Death: Education for Preparing for Death (Co-editor)
  • Thinking about Death: Education for Preparing for Death (Co-editor)
  • Seeing Death: Education for Preparing for Death (Co-editor)
  • Facing Aging and Death: Q&A on Living Old Age (Editor)
  • Hospices and Terminal Care in Japan (Co-editor)
  • 120 Books for Death Preparation Education (Co-editor)
  • Towards a New Culture of Death (Co-editor)
  • When Three Gather, Japan is Seen: Elegance, Aging, Death, and Humor (Co-author)
  • Sudden Death and Grief Care (Co-editor)
  • Dialogue on Love and Death: Stirring Correspondence on the Morning of Departure (Co-author)
  • Adult Life Education (Co-editor)
  • Speaking of Life (Co-author)
  • Graceful End of Life: Series of Lectures (Co-editor)

作風・主題

文体
philosophicalethicalthanatologicalpersuasive narrative
頻出モチーフ
deathaginghumordialogue between life and death

評価・遺産

He popularized thanatology in Japan and contributed to hospice movements and the improvement of terminal care. He was a philosopher and Jesuit priest who deeply influenced Japanese culture.

引用

  • Humor is a wonderful medicine for aging and death.
    出典: Book "Humor is a Wonderful Medicine for Aging and Death: Introduction to Thanatology" (1995年)

豆知識

  • Rejected recommendation to National Socialist leadership training school during WWII.
  • Held more than two lectures a day even after age 80.
  • His writings were included in Japanese junior high school language textbooks.