List of books from The Good Place
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List of books from The Good Place lists books featured in or alluded to in the American TV series The Good Place.[1][2][3] The list is sorted alphabetically by book title.
The television series created by Michael Schur[4][5] includes several references to well-known philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Kierkegaard, Hume, and Kant but also to contemporaries such as Thomas M. Scanlon, Jonathan Dancy, and Todd May.[6][7] The Good Place gained national attention by making philosophy fun, including by introducing viewers to classic philosophy texts.[8][9]
Books from The Good Place[edit]
- A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin & Faith with On My Religion by John Rawls[10]
- A History of Philosophy, Vol. 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Okham, Francis Bacon, and the Beginning of the Modern World by Frederick Charles Copleston[10]
- A History of Philosophy, Vol. 4: Modern Philosophy, from Descartes to Leibnitz by Frederick Charles Copleston[10]
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls[10][11]
- A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume[12][13][14]
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke[13][10]
- Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics by David Mills Daniel[10]
- Bentham: A Fragment on Government by Jeremy Bentham[7][10]
- Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa[13][14]
- Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Søren Kierkegaard[10][15]
- Conduct and Character: Readings in Moral Theory by Mark Timmons[10]
- Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill[10][16]
- Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant[10][17]
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant[13][14]
- De Anima by Aristotle[10][18]
- Death by Todd May[13][14]
- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault[13][14]
- Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams[10][15]
- Ethics Without Principles by Jonathan Dancy[13][14]
- Euthyphro by Plato[13][19]
- Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard[12][13]
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant[12][13][19][14]
- How Good People Make Tough Choices by Rushworth Kidder[10][13]
- I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi[10][20]
- Investigation into Causal Relatioship by Baruch Spinoza[10][21]
- Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger[10]
- Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel[10][20]
- Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton[10][20]
- L'Année Terrible by Victor Hugo[10][22]
- Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion by Alan F. Segal[10]
- Lysis by Plato[10][23]
- Madness and civilization by Michel Foucault[13][14]
- Meno by Plato[10][13]
- Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot[10]
- No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre[7][12][13]
- Notebooks, 1935-1951 by Albert Camus[10]
- On the Way to Language by Martin Heidegger[13][14]
- Ordinary Vices by Judith N. Shklar[10][19]
- Paradise Lost by John Milton[10][24]
- Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven--And How We Can Regain It by Jeffrey Burton Russell[10]
- Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938 by Martin Heidegger[10]
- Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit[15][25]
- Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi by Mark Csikszentmihalyi (ed.)[10]
- Source of the Self by Charles Taylor[19][26]
- Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do? by Mark D. White (ed.)[10]
- Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu[10][13]
- The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle[10]
- The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides by Martin Heidegger[10]
- The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel[10]
- The Collected Dialogues by Plato[10]
- The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology by Jürgen Moltmann[10]
- The Concept of Time by Martin Heidegger[10]
- The Essential Foucault: Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault[10]
- The Essential Kierkegaard by Søren Kierkegaard[10][14]
- The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche[10]
- The Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology by Brian E. Daley[10]
- The Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant[10]
- The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick[10][13]
- The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically by Peter Singer[10][27]
- The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus[10]
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle[12][13][14][19]
- The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond by Alain LeRoy Locke[10]
- The Present Age by Søren Kierkegaard[10]
- The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell[10]
- The Rebel by Albert Camus[10][28]
- The Republic by Plato[13][14][19]
- The Sickness unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard[10]
- The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo by Plato[13][14]
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by by Friedrich Nietzsche[10]
- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke[10][29]
- Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill[13][14][15]
- Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox[10][30]
- What is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger[13][14]
- What is Good and Why by Richard Kraut[10][19]
- What We Owe to Each Other by T.M. Scanlon[31][32][12][13]
- Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? by Russ Shafer-Landau[10]
- Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham[10]
See Also[edit]
- The Good Place
- The Good Place (season 1)
- The Good Place (season 2)
- The Good Place (season 3)
- The Good Place (season 4)
- List of The Good Place Episodes
References[edit]
- ↑ Egner, Jeremy (2020-01-28). "'The Good Place' Finale Finds the Meaning of Life: 'Yep, Nailed It'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ EDT, Samuel Spencer On 9/26/19 at 7:10 AM (2019-09-26). "Everything you need to know about "The Good Place" Season 4 on NBC". Newsweek. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ Abbott, Kate; Davies, Hannah J.; Mumford, Gwilym; Seale, Jack; Harrison, Phil (2019-09-16). "The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ Poniewozik, James (2018-01-31). "How 'The Good Place' Became an Antihero Antidote". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ Gilbert, Sophie (2020-01-31). "'The Good Place' Was a Metaphor All Along". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ↑ "How a UCLA philosophy professor helped construct 'The Good Place'". UCLA. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Street, Andrew P. (2018-01-29). "The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ Rao, Sonia (January 30, 2020). "Michael Schur knows moral philosophy can be a drag. With 'The Good Place,' he made it fun". Washington Post.
- ↑ Nguyen, Nicholas (September 18, 2020). "Am I Still A Good Person?". The Cornell Daily Sun.
- ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 10.15 10.16 10.17 10.18 10.19 10.20 10.21 10.22 10.23 10.24 10.25 10.26 10.27 10.28 10.29 10.30 10.31 10.32 10.33 10.34 10.35 10.36 10.37 10.38 10.39 10.40 10.41 10.42 10.43 10.44 10.45 10.46 10.47 10.48 10.49 10.50 10.51 10.52 10.53 10.54 10.55 10.56 "The Good Place Reading List (69 books)". goodreads. December 20, 2017. Retrieved 2020-09-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Cohen, Marshall (1972-07-16). "The social contract explained and defended". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 "Literary References in The Good Place". Quirk Books : Publishers & Seekers of All Things Awesome. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 13.17 13.18 13.19 13.20 13.21 13.22 "Books Mentioned on the Good Place by Chidi". List Challenges. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 14.14 Ullery, Sarah (2018-02-16). "Chidi's Reading List". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 McCreesh, Louise (2018-02-05). "This viral Oxford book store is Chidi's real Good Place". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ "Considerations on Representative Government | work by Mill". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ "Immanuel Kant | Biography, Philosophy, Books, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ "On the Soul | work by Aristotle". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 "Ethics 101—The Good Place: A Reading List". Harvard University Press Blog. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 "5 Books On Ethics & Philosophy That Fans Of 'The Good Place' Will Love". Bustle. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ Brogan, Jacob (2017-10-27). "The Good Place Sends Philosophy Straight to Hell". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ "L'Année terrible | work by Hugo". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ "Lysis | work by Plato". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ "Paradise Lost | Summary & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ Staff, Guardian (2001-04-05). "Peter Singer's top 10 books". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ Levy, Jacob T., ed. (2016). "Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self". The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-871713-3. Search this book on
- ↑ "Peter Singer: I want to shame charities into proving the worth of their spending". the Guardian. 2015-03-26. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ "The Rebel | essay by Camus". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ "John Locke | Biography, Works, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ Bennett, Catherine (2004-07-24). "Review: Watching the English by Kate Fox". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ↑ Nussbaum, Emily. "Dystopia in "The Good Place"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ Yuko, Elizabeth (2017-10-21). "How 'The Good Place' Goes Beyond 'The Trolley Problem'". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
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