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If you want an inscrutable text on moral philosophy that covers every possible interpretation of every influence in the field, this isn't it. You may or may not gain anything if you've read the huge body of philosophy material that's out there.
But for the rest of us (even those with reasonable high level understanding of many of the core ideas he covers), this is an approachable, humorous presentation of many of the main schools of thought that are out there. Micheal Schur did his research for the show The Good Place (or The Good Place arose from his interest in philosophy). It showed in the questions the (excellent) show contemplated during its run, and the core "just try to be better" idea is definitely a key takeaway from the book as well.
You won't become a moral philosophy professor from reading this book, but it does give you some tools to make better choices tomorrow than you did yesterday, and it does it without being the chore to read that a lot of other work on the subject can be.
If you want an inscrutable text on moral philosophy that covers every possible interpretation of every influence in the field, this isn't it. You may or may not gain anything if you've read the huge body of philosophy material that's out there.
But for the rest of us (even those with reasonable high level understanding of many of the core ideas he covers), this is an approachable, humorous presentation of many of the main schools of thought that are out there. Micheal Schur did his research for the show The Good Place (or The Good Place arose from his interest in philosophy). It showed in the questions the (excellent) show contemplated during its run, and the core "just try to be better" idea is definitely a key takeaway from the book as well.
You won't become a moral philosophy professor from reading this book, but it does give you some tools to make better choices tomorrow than you did yesterday, and it does it without being the chore to read that a lot of other work on the subject can be.
