The Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right)
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)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Philosophy, Self-Help
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | Preliminary: Logic and Dialectic | Carl Manchester |
00:24:38 |
| Play 02 | The Basis of All Dialectic | Carl Manchester |
00:04:52 |
| Play 03 | Stratagems 1 to 10 | Carl Manchester |
00:15:59 |
| Play 04 | Stratagems 11 to 20 | Carl Manchester |
00:09:29 |
| Play 05 | Stratagems 21 to 30 | Carl Manchester |
00:19:03 |
| Play 06 | Stratagems 31 to 38 | Carl Manchester |
00:14:04 |
| Play 07 | On the comparative place... | Carl Manchester |
00:22:31 |
| Play 08 | Psychological Observations | Carl Manchester |
00:17:40 |
| Play 09 | On the Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms | Carl Manchester |
00:36:51 |
| Play 10 | Genius and Virtue | Carl Manchester |
00:28:24 |