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How to Be Perfect (First Year Read, 2023)

A guide to the 2023 First Year Read Program pick, How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur (2022).

How to Be Perfect cover imageAcquiring virtues is a lifelong process, and it’s really hard. (I know, it’s a bummer. When Eleanor Shellstrop—Kristen Bell’s character from The Good Place—asks her philosophy mentor Chidi Anagonye how she can become a good person, she wonders if there’s a pill she can take, or something she can vape. No such luck.)

(Schur, p. 24)

Virtue Ethics

"Virtue Ethics is a normative philosophical approach that urges people to live a moral life by cultivating virtuous habits."

(Source: Ethics Unwrapped)

 

This video from Ethics Unwrapped (University of Texas McCombs School of Business) explains virtue ethics as compared to utilitarianism and deontology.

 

Virtue Ethics (Ethics Unwrapped)


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