A review by sindri_inn_arsaeli
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

5.0

Delightful, amazing, enlightening, educational, and entertaining.
I won my copy in a Goodreads giveaway, and this is one I absolutely will be keeping and suggesting to fellow readers! It bumped The Good Place up to the top of my To Be Watched list, as well, and I'm immensely glad for that, too!
There may be many reasons nobody likes moral philosophers, (as showcased often enough in The Good Place!) but Schur's book highlighting all the Big Names And Theories of western philosophy is not one of them! Schur takes a gentle and humourous approach to the heavy realm of morality that makes it not only accessible, but enjoyable. And forgiving! I can't imagine reading countless moral pundits telling you how to be a better person because clearly you are Not One Now and coming out of it with the grace to offer any reader the maxim that by merely wanting to be better, you are already a better person, and yet Schur manages to do so.

I've completed Michael Schur's book, How To Be Perfect, and I'm not really sure that I am, perfect, at least today. But I feel better about how close I can get in the future, and that's probably more than I can really say than if I ever tried Kant, Russell, or Sartre, and I think I may finally feel almost clean from that time I tried to finish Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead back in 2004...

Highly recommended!