Chidi's Bookshelf

Tracking down the philosophy of "The Good Place." On the hunt to identify every work of philosophy referenced on the show, written on Chidi’s blackboard, or used as a prop. Run by me, a non-philosopher who nevertheless shares Chidi’s obsessive researching tendency. Buy me a coffee. var sc_project=11871003; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="fd3e2c8f"; var sc_https=1; var sc_remove_link=1;

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In the book Golden Girls was Crowley's favourite TV show. Is that also TV Crowley's favourite or does he have a current TV show that he prefers?

I think he’d love The Good Place.

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I’ve been waiting for an account like this!!

thank you so much! i’ve been on a bit of a school-related hiatus, but hopefully i should be back to posting new content soon!

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (Translated by Walter Kaufmann)

Season 03, Episode 05 (”Jeremy Bearimy”)

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Taking a break from the usual philosophical focus of this blog to appreciate the increasingly overt political references from the last two episodes of “The Good Place”...

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John Rawls

T.M. Scanlon

Professor Pamela Hieronymi, Department of Philosophy, UCLA

Todd May, Death

Season 03, Episode 04 (“The Snowplow”)

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Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age

Todd May, Death

You’re Not So Bad! A Guide to Building Confidence for the Hopelessly Mediocre

Season 03, Episode 04 (“The Snowplow”)

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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Allan Bloom, The Republic of Plato

Season 03, Episode 04 (“The Snowplow”)

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Chidi’s whiteboards during the teaching montage in “The Snowplow”:

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Epicurus

Season 03, Episode 04 (“The Snowplow”)

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Aristotle

It’s not. (But it is a very fun homage to “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”)

Season 03, Episode 1 (”Everything is Bonzer!”)

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Tahani Al-Jamil, Get Out of the Spotlight

Malcolm Gladwell

Cormac McCarthy

Season 03, Episode 02, ("Everything Is Bonzer! Part II”)

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Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

Louis Genevie and Eva Margolies, The Motherhood Report: How Women Feel About Being Mothers

John Sandford, Twisted Prey

Epicurus

Season 03, Episode 02, ("Everything Is Bonzer! Part II”)

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Socrates

Plato

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Season 03, Episode 1 (”Everything is Bonzer!”)

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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Season 03, Episode 1 (”Everything is Bonzer!”)

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THIS BLOG IS AMAZING✨✨ I really really love it!! Congrats, you've done a great job💕💕

thank you so much! i’m glad you guys find it interesting— to me all of this stuff is so fascinating!

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{Note: this is a pretty massive set of titles, so I’m placing it behind a cut to avoid clogging people’s dashboard!}

Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

Terry L. Cooper, Handbook of Administrative Ethics

Errol E. Harris, Fundamentals of Philosophy: A Study of Classical Texts

Albert William Levi, Philosophy and the Modern World

Samuel Enoch Stumpf, Philosophy: History & Problems

Frederick James Crosson and Kenneth Sayre, Philosophy and Cybernetics

Frank N. Magill, Masterpieces of World Philosophy

Encyclopedia Britannica, The Great Ideas Program

Thomas McPherson, Social Philosophy

Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy, Volume 1 (Greece and Rome)

Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy, Volume 2 (Medieval Philosophy)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, In Praise of Philosophy 

Ervin Laszlo, Introduction to Systems Philosophy

Benjamin Farrington, Aristotle: Founder of Scientific Philosophy

James K. Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy: A Popular History of Ideas

Aristotle

Plato

Joseph Goldstein, The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation

Tom L. Beauchamp, Philosophical Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Martin Heidegger, The Beginning of Western Philosophy

Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics

Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

Tay Zonday, Chocolate Book

Season 03, Episode 1 (”Everything is Bonzer!”)

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Oh man I just found this blog this is awesome and some shit Chidi would love

thank you, bud. all i want in life is to make chidi anagonye proud.

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I love your blog! You’re doing gods work sis

thanks, i’m glad you like it! i did a bunch of annotations today, so there should be new posts all through this week!