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. 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.

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. Bullshit ignores the truth and focuses on the impression being conveyed.From the writer and executive producer of the award-winning Netflix series The Good Place that made moral philosophy fun: a fool-proof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation you ever encounter, anywhere on earth, forever. Harry Frankfurt’s aim to distinguish bullshit from lying.John Rawls idea (similar to Scanlon’s contractualism) that a fair way to structure society would be to set the societal rules in place before you know how you will be part of the society.Find some meaning in the universe, make decisions through actions, and live with them. Existentialism has some similarities to Rule 10 of the Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life. Jean-Paul Sarte and Albert Camus’s existentialist teachings.Peter Singer’s views on utilitarianism.Schur does not find much help from Rand in his quest for the right answers to his moral questions. Ayn Rand’s theory of “objectivism” or rational selfishness.It is common for these ranges, or Overton windows, to shift as society normalizes a topic. Overton windows represent the “range of acceptance” for a view. Joseph Overton’s concept of societal norms shifting over time.This is how he feels when trying to make the correct moral decisions. Moral exhaustion, a new term Michael Schur wants to popularize.It is focused on what is good for society more so than what is good for the individual. Ubuntu is a Zulu (Western African) concept similar to contractualism.The practical imperative: don’t use people to get what you want.

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