(Part 2) Top products from r/TheGoodPlace

> it would trend a lot closer to a Christian understanding of the afterlife

Well, I don't want to go into religious debate, but I will say that there's a difference between how Christianity is practiced in the modern day, and the literal tenets of the religion ("easier for a rich man to ... ", Good Samaritan parable, etc.).

Of those two, I don't see the literal tenets as being incompatible with the show.

There's a great book called The Second Greatest Story Ever Told in which God's daughter comes down and does Letterman, etc., and my favorite bit in the story is how all the commandments are boiled down to one that's easier to remember: "Be kind."

I haven't read What We Owe to Each Other, but from what I'm familiar with it's an attempt by Scanlon to explain and justify his particular brand of moral contractualism, and not an introductory book on ethics and moral philosophy. I believe Chidi is a contractualist and deontologist so it makes sense why he would like that book (as a philosophy professor), but that's just one area of moral philosophy.

One of the problems with philosophy is that the works are intended for students and educated audiences and not laymen, so most of the books for example that I read when I first started college (and books that you'll find listed in "good for beginners" lists) like Nicomachean Ethics and Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals I would never, ever recommend to a general audience. They're full of confusing philosophy terminology and long, multi-stage logical arguments.

Instead I highly recommend what I suspect you're really looking for in Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael Sandel. While clearly aimed at an American audience, it's a very good and more importantly very readable general introduction to ethics and the varying schools of thought in the field. It's a really short read for a philosophy text and is peppered with real-life examples and dilemmas.

Another book that I actually read recently and quite enjoyed is A Concise Introduction to Ethics by Russ Shafer-Landau. Unfortunately, this one is intended for a student audience and is more of a textbook (complete with end of chapter quizzes), but it goes really broad and over not just all the big schools of ethics but also the fundamentals of moral reasoning, and metaethics and natural law (two things that don't always show up in ethics books which are usually about normative ethics).

This made me imagine a Good Place version of the [Star Wars Visual Dictionary] (https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Dictionary-Star-Wars-Episodes/dp/0789434814) I loved as a kid. Probably not exactly what you had in mind, but a fun mental image for me.

You could get a Bearamy build a bear and name it Jeremy Bearimy

Bearamy isn’t available on Build a Bear’s site but you can get him on Amazon

Fun outfit choices:

Bortles

Good Place

Micheal

DIY + Sharpie = Soul Squad

Bad Place

https://www.amazon.com/Forking-Trolley-Ethical-Journey-Place/dp/1786750791

Yup! They still make it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CBILL/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

I bought if off Amazon and used a fabric marker.

It's his most famous quote (from The Princess Bride) and the name of his memoir

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IWTWOI2/

Mindy originally asked for regular straws, but the bad place gave her silly straws that can never be completely clean and always have a little bit of leftover crap in the bends and are just a bit too narrow to get a satisfying sip. Plus, they don't work with milkshakes.