Is there something we could do that’s better? Schur describes the positives and negatives of these and other theories, as well as the philosopher or philosophers most often associated with them, in a quest to answer the four questions we should ask ourselves whenever we face an ethical dilemma: The book begins with and builds on an introduction to the three main philosophical schools in the Western world over the last 2,400 years: Aristotelian virtue ethics, utilitarianism (or consequentialism) as put forward by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant’s deontology, which is a fancy word meaning the study of the nature of duty and obligation. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by television writer and producer Michael Schur is a crash course in moral philosophy for those of us who don’t want to read Wittgenstein - which, I suspect, is most of us.
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