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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)

Year of Publication: 1896Genres: Philosophy,Self-Help,*Non-fiction

Running Time: 3 hours 13 minutes 31 seconds(10 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Carl Manchester

#	Chapter Name
	Preliminary: Logic and Dialectic Carl Manchester	24:38
	The Basis of All Dialectic Carl Manchester	4:52
	Stratagems 1 to 10 Carl Manchester	15:59
	Stratagems 11 to 20 Carl Manchester	9:29
	Stratagems 21 to 30 Carl Manchester	19:03
	Stratagems 31 to 38 Carl Manchester	14:04
	On the comparative place... Carl Manchester	22:31
	Psychological Observations Carl Manchester	17:40
	On the Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms Carl Manchester	36:51
	Genius and Virtue Carl Manchester	28:24