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How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question Audio CD – Unabridged, 25 January 2022

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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 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world. Read by the author, this one-of-a-kind audio production features guest appearances by members of the cast of The Good Place.

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. Okay, not quite. Instead, we'll gain fresh, funny, inspiring wisdom on the toughest issues we face every day.

How to Be Perfect is narrated by Michael Schur, Kristen Bell, D'Arcy Carden, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto, Marc Evan Jackson, Jameela Jamil, and Todd May!

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Simon & Schuster Audio
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25 January 2022
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13.21 x 2.29 x 17.78 cm
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1797135244
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978-1797135243
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"Michael Schur and the cast of "The Good Place" once again collaborate, this time to ponder today's toughest moral questions using philosophical views from the East and West. Schur delivers hilarious sarcasm as he tackles ethics and explains how to balance morality and achieve virtue. Friendly and inviting sounding, he is able to take the difficult, oftentimes dry topic of philosophy and make it engaging and entertaining. Using a simple and steady pace, Schur's narration is coupled with signature voices from the show, including Ted Danson and Kristen Bell. The entire cast makes this production an intriguing and funny way to introduce or reintroduce oneself to philosophy and achieve goodness."-- "Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award, AudioFile Magazine"

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Michael Schur is a television writer and producer who has worked on shows like The Office, Master of None, The Comeback, and Hacks, and created or cocreated Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place, and Rutherford Falls. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jennifer, and their two kids, William and Ivy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (25 January 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1797135244
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1797135243
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.21 x 2.29 x 17.78 cm

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N. Mackie

Lots of asides and written nods that annoy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2022

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This is fine. A good snapshot of certain moral philosophy tenets and given some interesting modern parallels or thought problems. However, the constant footnotes to explain a joke, or to give what would be a look to camera in a TV comedy, do detract from what is otherwise fairly interesting.

I could avoid the footnotes but every so often there is one that provides further context or history of the topic or person being talked about, so I just get irritated by the other kind.

maurice

It’s a great read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2022

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If you enjoyed watching The Good Place (and I loved it) then this book focuses on the underlying philosophies dealt with in that programme in an entertaining and very readable way.
And there’s a very moving (well I found it so) letter to his children at the end that advises them about how to be good people. Quite beautiful.

J Lange

An excellent reference

Reviewed in Canada on 24 February 2022

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A valuable review of several philosophical and ethical schools and a useful reminder that perfection is a worthy but unattainable goal.

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Amo este libro. Filosofía para tod@s.

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Niels

Refreshing moral philosophy book

Reviewed in the Netherlands on 6 February 2022

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I liked it. Fun writtten. Sometimes a bit too much trying to be funny and I was a bit disappointed about the short sightedness around Ayn Rand.

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