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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 Path to Happiness

For most people, for most personality types, it has to happen within a social context where it is not incredibly uncomfortable for those moral intuitions to matter. This is 100% the point of this show, I think. When Cheeti is shown in flashbacks in his life as an extreme Kantian, he's usually shown essentially driving other people out of his life. All of the characters on the show, even to honey, to honey was a very social person, but all of her social interactions were transactional.

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