Digital Marketing Humor

Eudaimonia, that word that's right out there with the Tetragrammaton for its elusive inability to be defined. "Happiness" is probably the most common way we translate Aristotle's classic concept into English, although some seem to prefer "flourishing."

Okay, M.M. Bakhtin isn't quite a "philosopher" but more a half-way point between a "philosopher" and a "literary critic" but what, really, is a philosopher anyway? Who would put, "Philosopher" onto his LinkedIn (without getting laughed at for the pretentiousness of it)? Whichever he was, he was one of my favorite thinkers whose works I absorbed Way Back When and he has at least one idea worth sharing: heteroglossia vs monoglossia.

We've previously analyzed how Max Weber would PPC, but we focused entirely on his approach towards bureaucracy. Today, we're going to rethink Max Weber as a PPC, but using his more famous idea, that of the Protestant Work Ethic.

Continuing our series on how the great philosophers would do as PPCs, I'm returning yet again to Plato, as I've done three times before. Half because Plato stands so far above any other thinker--all other thinkers are just footnotes to Plato, as the philosopher's adage goes--and half because I enjoy reading him and half because he's probably the classic thinker whom I know the best. So today, we're going to examine another aspect of Plato's worldview, to see how it would influence him as a PPC: his argument in Phaedrus against writing, because it harms the more-important memory (and this has ramifications on our soul).

Adam Smith's book, The Wealth of Nations--published in the same year as the American Revolution, no less!--is the book that convinced the world to scrap mercantilism and adopt more "free market" approaches. Or so we're taught.