“You poke around the internet and you find out that Jonathan Dancy, who is Hugh Dancy’s dad, is a famous philosopher in the U.K.,” Schur said. “And he popularized this thing called ‘moral particularism’ which is this world view that says there are no absolutes, no moral rules, no laws — you have to sort of evaluate the morality of each particular situation you’re in at a given time.”
It seemed like the perfect fix, except for one problem: “I was reading about moral particularism [and it’s] very hard — the headline is great and easy to understand, but I bought [Jonathan Dancy’s] book and I read four pages and didn’t understand a word.”
So how does Schur find someone to explain moral particularism to him in laymen’s terms? Go to the source — well, kind of.
“Hugh Dancy, as you may know, is married to Claire Danes — an American film and television actress — and my wife, who’s also a writer, was developing a TV show with Claire Danes,” Schur said. “Claire Danes had a birthday party and Hugh Dancy was there, and I said, ‘Hey, can I ask you some questions about your dad?’ And he explained some moral particularism to me pretty well, and then we wrote it into the show.”
Source: http://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/good-place-season-2-joke-pirates-of-the-caribbean-1201976826/
OH MY GOD HUGH DANCY TAUGHT MORAL PARTICULARISM TO THE GOOD PLACE CREATOR LEAVE ME HERE TO CRY
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