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The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy TV show about the afterlife.
Eleanor dies and finds herself in the Good Place, which she
understands must be mistake, since she has been anything but good.
In the surprise twist ending to Season One, it is revealed that
this is really the Bad Place, but the demon who planned it was
frustrated, because the characters didn't torture each other
mentally as planned, but managed to learn how to live together. In
The Good Place and Philosophy, twenty-one philosophers analyze
different aspects of the ethical and metaphysical issues raised in
the show, including: Indefinitely long punishment can only be
justified as a method of ultimately improving vicious characters,
not as retribution. Can individuals retain their identity after
hundreds of reboots? Comparing Hinduism with The Good Place, we can
conclude that Hinduism gets things five percent correct. Looking at
all the events in the show, it follows that humans don't have free
will, and so people are being punished and rewarded unjustly. Is it
a problem that the show depicts torture as hilarious? This problem
can be resolved by considering the limited perspective of humans,
compared with the eternal perspective of the demons. The Good Place
implies that even demons can develop morally. The only way to
explain how the characters remain the same people after death is to
suppose that their actual bodies are transported to the afterlife.
Since Chidi knows all the moral theories but can never decide what
to do, it must follow that there is something missing in all these
theories. The show depicts an afterlife which is bureaucratic,
therefore unchangeable, therefore deeply unjust. Eleanor acts on
instinct, without thinking, whereas Chidi tries to think everything
through and never gets around to acting; together these two
characters can truly act morally. The Good Place shows us that
authenticity means living for others. The Good Place is based on
Sartre's play No Exit, with its famous line "Hell is other people,"
but in fact both No Exit and The Good Place inform us that human
relationships can redeem us. In The Good Place, everything the
humans do is impermanent since it can be rebooted, so humans cannot
accomplish anything good. Kant's moral precepts are supposed to be
universal, but The Good Place shows us it can be right to lie to
demons. The show raises the question whether we can ever be good
except by being part of a virtuous community.
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