This week, we will take another deep dive into a contemporary philosopher’s view on ethics. This time, Alain Badiou and his book Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. This book was written for the level of a French High Schooler, which makes it easier to read than some of his other work, but honestly, it certainly made me

In the third and final part of the Ethics of the Real series (and the 4th overall on ethics), we will look more deeply into the specific ethics that Zupančič is suggesting. If you have not read parts 1 and 2, I suggest you do so, as this will build on the last few newsletters. Desire and Drive To understand

Last week, we started to look at Alenka Zupančič’s notion of the ethics of the real by looking at her starting point of Kant; this week, we will go a bit deeper to understand how she views Kant through a Freudian and Lacanian lens. If you haven’t read last week’s newsletter, I recommend reading it here before this week’s. This

Immanuel Kant’s ethics are the most common modern example of deontological ethics. (Deontological ethics are rule-based ethics; for more on types of ethics, see last week’s post) Rather than starting with a specifically Kantian view, I want to use the lens of one of my favorite contemporary philosophers, Alenka Zupančič, as expressed in her book Ethics of the Real: Kant

This is the beginning of a series of newsletters dedicated to the question of what it means to be ethical as a middle manager. This first post will serve as a general overview of ethics to lay the groundwork for future posts. What is Ethics? Ethics, specifically normative ethics, is the study of how people ought to behave. This assumes,