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

by Michael Schur

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”

best thing about Aristotle’s “constant learning, constant trying, constant searching” is what results from it: a mature yet still pliable person, brimming with experiences both old and new, who doesn’t rely solely on familiar routines or dated information about how the world works.

This is the full sales pitch for virtue ethics: If we really work at finding the means of our virtues—learning their ins and outs, their vicissitudes and pitfalls, their pros and cons—we become flexible, inquisitive, adaptable, and better people.

‘knowledge makes men gentle,’ just as ignorance hardens us.”