The Art of Controversy (or - The Art of Being Right) by Arthur Schopenhauer audiobook. Genre: philosophy 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. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:41) Chapter 02 (00:29:34) Chapter 03 (00:45:35) Chapter 04 (00:55:06) Chapter 05 (01:14:12) Chapter 06 (01:28:18) Chapter 07 (01:50:52) Chapter 08 (02:08:35) Chapter 09 (02:45:32) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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