Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right), The by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) is a short treatise by Arthur Schopenhauer from 1831, offering thirty-eight rhetorical tricks for winning debates, even when in the wrong. Schopenhauer defends the value of dialectical argument, which he felt philosophers unfairly overlooked in favor of logic. He also examines the relationship between conscious intellectual powers and the will. This LibriVox recording has been popular with debaters and public figures such as A.C. Grayling, Mary Warnock, and Boris Johnson.