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,

With Christmas next week and the New Year following, I wanted to send a slightly different newsletter to close out the year. Overview of the year This was the first year of the Stuck In The Middle newsletter. I kicked off in August and, since then, have published 16 newsletters with over 32,000 words. That is over 2 hours of

Leaders need vision! I am sure you have heard this said over and over again. In leadership positions, we often discuss vision as a critical attribute a leader must have. A leader needs to create a vision to inspire the team and see where they are headed. But what if the value of vision isn’t to show exactly where we