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Actually, I found watching The Good Place to be really enjoyable in part because of how well it acted as an introduction to philosophy and ethics. There's some
by qchris 6y ago
Actually, I found watching The Good Place to be really enjoyable in part because of how well it acted as an introduction to philosophy and ethics.
There's some great scenes explicitly addressing concepts like utilitarianism and it's ups and downs, moral desserts, classic examples like the Trolley Problem, and relativism that, at least for me, made those concepts much more accessible when I was doing more reading later on because I already had some sort of concrete idea of how those concepts addressed certain (fantastical) situations.
It's also just a wonderful show, and I think it's worth recommending on its own merits, but there's definitely some actual value there as an accessible intro to several different aspects of philosophy.
- studius 6y agoI love The Good Place and only recently realized that even the characters might be loosely based on some "Gnostic" beliefs (Valentinianism, etc), like the judge (e.g. Sophia).