Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right)

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Authors: Arthur Schopenhauer In Year : 1896

Book Language: English

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Preliminary: Logic and Dialectic
The Basis of All Dialectic
Stratagems 1 to 10
Stratagems 11 to 20
Stratagems 21 to 30
Stratagems 31 to 38
On the comparative place...
Psychological Observations
On the Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms
Genius and Virtue

The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in which he presents thirty-eight methods of gaining an unfair advantage in a debate and thereby being right even if you are wrong. Schopenhauer champions the virtue of dialectical argument, in his view wrongly neglected by philosophers in favour of logic, and goes on to discuss the distinction between our conscious intellectual powers and our will. The text is a favourite of debaters including the philosophers AC Grayling and Mary Warnock, and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. (Summary by Carl Manchester)