How to Be Perfect

How to Be Perfect

2022 • 304 pages

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"From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, a ... guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world"--

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I genuinely laughed out loud to the description of Kant's inquiring murderer passage as a “self-own.”

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I love Michael Schur with every fiber of my being but I think I'm too dumb for this book.

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