EAN: 9781529421361

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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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