Can we learn anything about management from a German Philosophy text published over 200 years ago? I think we can, and I’m curious to hear your thoughts. One of the most read (in part because it is one of…
How do we make work better for everyone, even within the constraints of a capitalist system? In a previous newsletter, we looked at the notion of private government, the idea that when you work for a company, you are…
Apple TV’s show Severance has recently returned for its second season, and this seemed like a great time to write a longer and shorter piece, taking a look at that show and how it relates to work as we…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
