{"product_id":"the-art-of-being-right-thirty-eight-ways-to-win-an-argument-whether-or-not-you-are-correct-9798256229153","title":"The Art of Being Right: Thirty-Eight Ways to Win an Argument, Whether or Not You Are Correct","description":"Every man supposes that an argument is won by whoever happens to be correct. Every man is mistaken.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the eighteen-thirties Arthur Schopenhauer catalogued the thirty-eight manoeuvres by which a position may be held long after it has ceased to deserve holding - the fair, the doubtful, and the frankly disgraceful. He called it the art of being right: the art of holding your own, whether you are in the right or the wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are all thirty-eight, complete and in his own order, in T. Bailey Saunders's classic 1896 translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll thirty-eight stratagems, complete and unabridged, in Schopenhauer's own order\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEight themed parts, from bending the proposition to the last resorts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA plain English name for every stratagem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA frontispiece and eight full-page paintings in full colour - Velázquez, Vigée Le Brun, Ribera, Boucher, Daumier and Ingres\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn index of the devices - ad hominem, ad verecundiam, petitio principii, retorsio argumenti\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented in dignified deadpan. Study these pages and you will win more arguments. Study them and you will also see, with some discomfort, exactly how you are being beaten whenever you lose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Public-domain works as credited in the book - the 1852 Schopenhauer photograph (cover and frontispiece); plates by Velázquez, Vigée Le Brun, Ribera, Boucher, Daumier and Ingres*\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur Schopenhauer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trace Press Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e The Northlume Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798256229153","brand":"Trace Press Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48405917073545,"sku":"9798256229153","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_ae067258-6b23-4294-98f6-b6113780d2ef.jpg?v=1790059432","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-being-right-thirty-eight-ways-to-win-an-argument-whether-or-not-you-are-correct-9798256229153","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}