4
Apr

WATCH: How to be perfect with “The Good Place” creator Michael Schur

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Both in-person and virtual tickets are available for this event. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

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WBUR CitySpace890 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215Open in Google Maps

Michael Schur, co-creator of “Parks and Recreation” and creator of “The Good Place,”  discusses his new book, “How To Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question.” He'll be in conversation with Lydia Moland, professor of philosophy at Colby College and author of the upcoming biography "Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life."

Copies of "How To Be Perfect" will be available for purchase at the event from our bookstore partner Brookline Booksmith. Schur will sign books after the event.

About "How To Be Perfect"
How can we live a more ethical life?

This question has plagued people for thousands of years, but it's never been tougher to answer than it is now, thanks to challenges great and small that flood our day-to-day lives and threaten to overwhelm us with impossible decisions and complicated results with unintended consequences.

Plus, being anything close to an 'ethical person' requires daily thought and introspection and hard work; we have to think about how we can be good not, you know, once a month, but literally all the time.

To make it a little less overwhelming, this fascinating, accessible and funny book by one of our generation's best writers and adept minds in television comedy, Michael Schur, boils down the whole confusing morass with real life dilemmas (from 'should I punch my friend in the face for no reason?' to 'can I still enjoy great art if it was created by terrible people?'), so that we know how to deal with ethical dilemmas. Much as Chidi used humour and philosophy to make Eleanor a less selfish person, Schur takes us on a journey through the 2,500-year discussion of ethics, sketching a roadmap for how we ought to act along the way.

By the time the book is done, we'll know exactly how to act in every conceivable situation, so as to produce a verifiably maximal amount of moral good. We will be perfect, and all our friends will be jealous. OK, not quite. Instead, we'll gain fresh, funny, inspiring wisdom on the toughest issues we face every day.

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