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Part 1: “In Which We Learn Various Theories About How to Be Good People From the Three Main Schools of Western Moral Philosophy That Have Emerged Over the Last 2,400 Years, Plus a Bunch of Other Cool Stuff, All in Like Eighty Pages”

Introduction-Part 1, Chapter 2

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Part 1, Chapters 3-4

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Part 2: “In Which We Take Everything We’ve Learned, and We Start Asking Some Tougher Questions, and We Use the Stuff We’ve Learned to Try to Answer Them, and We Also Learn a Bunch More Cool Stuff”

Part 2, Chapters 5-8

How to Be Perfect Part 2, Chapters 5-8 Summary & Analysis

Part 3: “In Which Things Get Really Tough, but We Power Through and Complete Our Journeys, Becoming Perfectly Virtuous and Flourishing Deontologically Pure Happiness-Generating Super-People, and Also There’s a Chapter With Some Cursing in It, but It’s for a Good Reason”

Part 3, Chapters 9-10

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Part 3, Chapter 11-Coda

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How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question