The Good Place and Philosophy : Everything is Forking Fine! EPUB
Edited by Kimberly S. Engels
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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
- Led by Kimberly S. Engels, co-editor of Westworld and Philosophy
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- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:03/09/2020
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- ISBN:9781119633297
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:03/09/2020
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- ISBN:9781119633297
