The Good Place has made a huge splash on NBC and strangely also brought interest in philosophy back to the spotlight. Eleanor Shellstrop wakes up dead in “The Good Place” and quickly learns she’s not supposed to be there. With help from Chidi, a former Moral Philosophy professor, she finds herself learning how to be a better person. The show is one of the first to have a philosopher regularly called in for accuracy checks. The Good Place and Philosophy. the new book from Open Court Press, takes readers on a journey through philosophical concepts that affect the characters of hte show.
The Good Place and Philosophy is a strangely fun guide to philosophy. The various essays make philosophy concepts fairly easy to understand, using the characters from the television show.
The Good Place and Philosophy is now available from Open Court Press.
