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The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Motives

Motive and goal are the same, right? The motive is to just be good for goodness sake. And I think the path through this for us is to just that we all just need to become better people. That's my pure motive. My motive is just to become the best person I can be. So I'm going to try to do that. But in other words though, if you're a person who just looks at the world and says, boy, there's a lot of unpleasantness and there’s a lot of evil and there's aA lot of poorly motivated people. There's two different kinds of people. You can take five minutes now to go through this

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