I've Been Thinking About It All My Life

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We don't often think about luck, and the persons privilege or setting that they were born into, as being related to making ethical choices. But you make a very compelling case that it is. Yes, luck is the thing i have thought about my whole life. So i just enjoy kind of trying to unpack it and trying to trace my steps backwards to figure out how it all startedd you actually have,. If there's a whole long sequence in the book where you just lay out all f the luck that it took for you to get to the position you're in, in relation to ethics and philosophy. Want to really start thinking of your life as a series of steps that include work

Humans face ethical dilemmas big and small every day: Which product is the most sustainable? Can you separate the art from the artist? Should you really share your streaming platform passwords? Today’s guest, Michael Schur, has spent a lot of time thinking about morality, most recently in his Emmy-nominated show The Good Place, and in the New York Times bestselling book “How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question,” and. In this episode, Michael talks about why he’s gone from working on shows like Saturday Night Live, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Hacks, to reading and writing about Kant, Nietzsche, and Aristotle. Michael shares why he uses analogies and pop culture references to engage with philosophy, why he’s still chasing after the eternal and perhaps unanswerable question of “how to be perfect”, and why he believes caring about ethics –at any level– can actually make a difference.