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The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) by Arthur Schopenhauer
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...
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01 - Preliminary: Logic and Dialectic 02.01.2026 24:38
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02 - The Basis of All Dialectic 01.01.2026 4:52
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03 - Strategems 1 to 10 31.12.2025 15:59
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04 - Stratagems 11 to 20 30.12.2025 9:29
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05 - Strategems 21 to 30 29.12.2025 19:03
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06 - Strategems 31 to 38 28.12.2025 14:04
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07 - On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art 27.12.2025 22:31
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08 - Psychological Observations 26.12.2025 17:40
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09 - On the Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms 25.12.2025 36:51
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10 - Genius and Virtue 24.12.2025 28:24
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