How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question - by the creator of the Netflix hit THE GOOD PLACE

The New York Times Bestseller, "How to Be a Good Person: The Practical Guide to Doing the Right Thing," is a foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation. It is written by Michael Schur, the writer and executive producer of the award-winning Netflix series "The Good Place." The book simplifies the complex morass of ethical dilemmas with real-life scenarios and offers wisdom on the toughest issues we face daily.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 25 January 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing

The New York Times Bestseller

From the writer and executive producer of the award-winning Netflix series "The Good Place," which 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 humor 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.

Weight: 214g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529421361