{"name":"The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right)","short_name":"The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right)","theme_color":"#ffffff","start_url":"/","display":"standalone","background_color":"#fff","description":"The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) 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.","icons":[{"src":"https://deow9bq0xqvbj.cloudfront.net/image-logo/1745143/The_Art_of_Controversy_or_The_Art_of_Being_Right__300x300.jpg","sizes":"300x300","type":"image/png"}]}