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Chargement... How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question (2022)par Michael Schur
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a must-read for fans of The Good Place, and a really-should-read for fans of The Office or Parks & Rec. How to Be Perfect is a distillation of the moral philosophy Mike Schur learned while creating the show The Good Place. I’ve never taken a philosophy course, but who better to present these ideas in a “for dummies” style summary than a long-beloved comedy sitcom writer? I don’t think there’s much other context in which one can laugh out loud repeatedly while learning about Kant. Get the audiobook, particularly if you’re a Good Place fan, because most of the cast appear on it. But honestly, get the audiobook even if you’re not a Good Place fan, then… become a Good Place fan. Sometimes, The Good Place felt like Philosophy 101 (I say, having never been to a similar class but the viewers definitely learned alongside Eleanor Shellstrop). How to Be Perfect is the equivalent of what Michael Schur learned while plotting and writing the show, though this is less of a Good Place book and more of an ethical overview, with a focus on Aristotelian virtue ethics, utilitarianism, deontology, existentialism and other perspectives that help frame the question: what does it really mean to do good? Professor Todd May (from my alma mater of Clemson University!) chimes in in the footnotes periodically, and I'm once again ever so curious as to how an audiobook would handle that kind of banter. This book is decidedly placed in a time period with contemporary examples of Americans failing to take collective action for the benefit of their communities through simple measures during the early years of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic though it's hard to think of a bigger sociological example relevant to now, tbh. Wow, truth in titling! I read this book, effortlessly absorbed the lessons Michael Schur so skillfully boiled down from thousands of years of philosophical writings, and now I'm morally perfect! Ha ha ha ha, but seriously. Schur pulls off something quite difficult here. He's written a primer on moral philosophy that is deeply meaningful and compassionate, engagingly and intelligently written, and laugh out loud funny on many occasions. There is more insight here than you can shake a stick at -- and more jokes! Five stars from me! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,400 years of deep thinking from around the world. Most people think of themselves as "good," but it's not always easy to determine what's "good" or "bad"??especially in a world filled with complicated choices and pitfalls and booby traps and bad advice. Fortunately, many smart philosophers have been pondering this conundrum for millennia and they have guidance for us. With bright wit and deep insight, How to Be Perfect explains concepts like deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism, ubuntu, and more so we can sound cool at parties and become better people. Schur starts off with easy ethical questions like "Should I punch my friend in the face for no reason?" (No.) and works his way up to the most complex moral issues we all face. Such as: Can I still enjoy great art if it was created by terrible people? How much money should I give to charity? Why bother being good at all when there are no consequences for being bad? And much more. 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 d Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The approach here is simple and casual, taking ideas from people who wrote huge, dense, largely unreadable tomes, paring them down to some of their basics, and seeing what seems useful for us ordinary schmoes as we try to navigate this stupid and complicated thing called life without being complete jerks. Shur sees some merit in almost all of the philosophies he considers (Ayn Rand aside) and seems to regard them all as possible tools to pick and choose from in whatever situations they seem most appropriate in. His writing is clear, breezy, humorous, and pleasant, and much more interested in mulling over the questions than trying to dictate any hard and fast answers. I don't think I agreed one hundred percent with all his personal takes, but I find his approach in general very simpatico.
It's worth pointing out, by the way, just in case it's not clear, that the title is very tongue in cheek. This book will not only not teach you how to be perfect and get the answer to every moral question right, it's not even remotely going to try, because Shur recognizes that that's completely impossible, and not really the point, anyway.
Also worth noting is that although he does reference characters and ideas from The Good Place, because that show embodied a lot of the ideas he's discussing here, you don't need to have seen it to read the book. He also manages not to spoil anything from it, either, in case you want to go and watch it afterward. Fans of the show, though, will probably find it especially interesting and a nice little add-on to their viewing experience. If nothing else, having read the sections on Kant, I now completely understand why Chidi has a stomachache all the time. ( )