
PREMIUM-Ep. 255: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Use of Deception in Business Competition
In many of these business things, you don't have a mental entity that you're actively engaged with that is also conniving against you. The activity of deception requires an engagement like that where you have someone to fool. You las not to vanquish your enemy, right? Exactly. It's hard to draw an analogy in every circumstance here, but you have to think about, in business competition, there has to be a market customers, or land, or resources, or something like that. And when you start thinking in those terms then you can make the analogy that i just described.
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