![]() His spoonful-of-sugar method will encourage you to take a fresh approach to those thoughts that keep us awake at night - you will come away having gained some perspective and laughed so much. Do I have to say I’m sorry?” we know that there are no easy answers to these elevated concerns and wouldn’t want them because we wouldn’t want to miss Schur’s irreverent wrestling with any possible moral conundrum. By the time he reaches the final chapter he calls “I screwed up. His conversational approach to illustrating concepts like virtue ethics and utilitarianism using references to pop culture, politics, and sports is balanced by an entertaining history of the key thinkers and theories from 2,500 years of Western philosophical thought all with hilarious footnotes we might expect from a comedy writer. ![]() They’re the ones that made sense to me, in a cartoon-lightbulb-turning-on-above-my-head kind of a way. The works discussed in this book are simply the ones I liked and connected with, he writes. ![]() “How to be Perfect: The correct answer to every moral question” by Michael Schur, Simon & Schuster, 2022, 289 pagesĪfter exploring morality on “The Good Place”, comedy superstar Mike Schur answers questions like “Should we punch our friends in the face for no reason?” and whether or not it is OK to enjoy the art and music of people who are morally problematic with a mix of theories from Aristotle and Kant combined with personal anecdotes that leave you wishing he had been your first year university Philosophy professor. Fully admitting his own limitations, Schur stresses the importance of personal connection. ![]()
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