The Good Place and philosophy
Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC's The Good Place, guided by academic experts including the show's philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael Schur. Explicitly dedicated to the philosophi...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1. "I just ethics'd you in the face". How do you like them ethics? / David Baggett, Marybeth Baggett -- Don't let the good life pass you by / Greg Littmann -- Luck and fairness in the good place / Scott A Davison, Andrew R Davison - Part 2. "Virtuous for virtue's sake". Can Eleanor really become a better person? / Eric J. Silverman, Zachary Swanson -- The good place and the good life / C. Scott Sevier -- The ethics of indecision / Traci Phillipson - Part 3. "All those ethics lessons paid off". Moral absurdity and care ethics in the good place / Laura Matthews -- The medium place / Catherine M. Robb -- What we may learn from Michael's solution to the trolley problem / Andreas Bruns - Part 4. "Help is other people". Some memories you may have forgotten / Alison Reiheld -- The good other / Steven A. Benko -- Not knowing your place / Leslie A. Aarons - Part 5. "Absurdity needs to be confronted". Marginal comforts keep us in hell / Jake Jackson -- "I would refuse to be a god if it were offered to me" / Kimberly S. Engels - Part 6. "Searching for meaning is philosophical suicide". Death, meaning, and existential crises / Kiki Berk -- From indecision to ambiguity / Matthew P. Meyer -- Beyond good and evil places / James Lawler - Part 7 "The Dalai Lama texted me that". Conceptions of the afterlife / Michael Mcgowan -- Who are Chidi and Eleanor in a past-(after)life? The Buddhist notion of no-self / Dane Sawyer - Part 8. "Sometimes a flaw can make something even more beautiful". Hell is other people's tastes / Darren Hudson Hick, Sarah E. Worth -- Why everyone hates moral philosophy professors / T. Storm Heter - Part 9. "Oh cool, more philosophy! That will help us.". An epistemological nightmare? Ways of knowing in the good place / Dean A Kowalski -- What's the use of free will? / Joshua Tepley -- From clickwheel through busty Alexa / Robin L. Zebrowski -- Why it wouldn't be rational to believe you're in The Good Place (and why you wouldn't want to be there anyway) / David Kyle Johnson. | |
| 520 | |a Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC's The Good Place, guided by academic experts including the show's philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael Schur. Explicitly dedicated to the philosophical concepts, questions, and fundamental ethical dilemmas at the heart of the thoughtful and ambitious NBC sitcom The Good Place. Navigates the murky waters of moral philosophy in more conceptual depth to call into question what Chidi's ethics lessons-and the show-get right about learning to be a good person. Features contributions from The Good Place's philosophical consultants, Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and introduced by the show's creator and showrunner Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation, The Office). Engages classic philosophical questions, including the clash between utilitarianism and deontological ethics in the "Trolley Problem," Kant's categorical imperative, Sartre's nihilism, and T.M Scanlon's contractualism. Explores themes such as death, love, moral heroism, free will, responsibility, artificial intelligence, fatalism, skepticism, virtue ethics, perception, and the nature of autonomy in the surreal heaven-like afterlife of the Good Place. | ||
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