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How to be perfect : the correct answer to every moral question / Michael Schur ; with philosophical nitpicking by Professor Todd May.

Schur, Michael, 1975- (author.). May, Todd, 1955- (author.).

Summary:

"From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781982159313 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1982159316 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781982159320 (paperback)
ISBN: 1982159324 (paperback)
Physical Description: xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-278) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- A few questions readers might have, before we get started -- Part 1: In which we learn various theories about how to be good people from the three main schools of western moral philosophy that have emerged over the last 2,400 years, plus a bunch of other cool stuff, all in like eighty pages -- Part 2: In which we take everything we've learned, and we start asking some tougher questions, and we use the stuff we've learned to try to answer them, and we also learn a bunch more cool stuff -- Part 3: In which things get really tough, but we power through and complete our journeys, becoming perfectly virtuous and flourishing and deontologically pure happiness-generating super-people, and also there's a chapter with some cursing in it, but it's for a good reason -- Coda: Okay, kids, what have we learned?