![]() ![]() With How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, Schur has attempted to do so: translate thousands of years of complex philosophical arguments into a so-called human language. And I thought, if we could just translate that to, like, a human language, this would be very helpful.” ![]() It’s like a chef had come up with a recipe for chocolate chip cookies that were both delicious and also helped you lose weight, but the recipe was 600 pages long and written in German, and no one read it. But there is a problem: “They wrote so complicatedly and densely and opaquely that no one wants to engage with it. ![]() Why, just the other day he was telling the New York Times that “the smartest people who ever lived have been working really hard for thousands of years to try to explain to us how we can be better people, and how we can improve ourselves.” Which is indeed reassuring. In fact, it’s preoccupied him for as long as he can remember. When he isn’t writing or producing television shows like Parks and Recreation or The Good Place - and presumably making a ton of money doing it - writer, producer, and actor Michael Schur thinks about how to be a good person. ![]()
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