* From the writer and executive producer of the award-winning
Netflix series The Good Place that made moral philosophy fun: a
foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every
situation you ever encounter, anywhere on earth, forever * 'An
absolute breeze to read; funny and enlightening and revealing' -
Guardian 'Enormously enjoyable, useful and readable' - The Times
How can we live a more ethical life? This question has plagued
people for thousands of years, but it's never been tougher to
answer than it is now, thanks to challenges great and small that
flood our day-to-day lives and threaten to overwhelm us with
impossible decisions and complicated results with unintended
consequences. Plus, being anything close to an 'ethical person'
requires daily thought and introspection and hard work; we have to
think about how we can be good not, you know, once a month, but
literally all the time. To make it a little less overwhelming, this
fascinating, accessible and funny book by one of our generation's
best writers and adept minds in television comedy, Michael Schur,
boils down the whole confusing morass with real life dilemmas (from
'should I punch my friend in the face for no reason?' to 'can I
still enjoy great art if it was created by terrible people?'), so
that we know how to deal with ethical dilemmas. Much as Chidi used
humour and philosophy to make Eleanor a less selfish person, Schur
takes us on a journey through the 2,500-year discussion of ethics,
sketching a roadmap for how we ought to act along the way. By the
time the book is done, we'll know exactly how to act in every
conceivable situation, so as to produce a verifiably maximal amount
of moral good. We will be perfect, and all our friends will be
jealous. OK, not quite. Instead, we'll gain fresh, funny, inspiring
wisdom on the toughest issues we face every day With contributions
from Professor Todd May of Clemson University, who served as an
advisor on The Good Place, this is a brilliant, clever and hugely
entertaining book about one of the most important topics in the
world. 'The problem is, if all you care about in the world is the
velvet rope, you will always be unhappy, no matter which side
you're on.' - Tahani Al-Jamil, The Good Place
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