Download or read book The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) is a collection of debate formulas written in 1831 by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. In this book, the author presents methods of gaining an unfair advantage in a debate and thereby being right even if you are wrong. Schopenhauer is a champion in the dialectical argument; in his view, dialectics is wrongly neglected by philosophers in favor of logic. This work is a handbook of modern debaters like Prime Minister Boris Johnson.