{"id":241,"date":"2009-11-05T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T08:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=241"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:11:07","slug":"the-art-of-always-being-right-arthur-schopenhauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2009\/11\/05\/the-art-of-always-being-right-arthur-schopenhauer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Always Being Right &#8212; Arthur Schopenhauer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/the-art-of-always-being-right-1-734x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/the-art-of-always-being-right-1-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/the-art-of-always-being-right-1-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/the-art-of-always-being-right-1-768x1071.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/the-art-of-always-being-right-1-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/the-art-of-always-being-right-1.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This book is not really about being right. It&#8217;s about winning arguments, even when you&#8217;re wrong. The 38 tactics include such classics as &#8220;Use your opponent&#8217;s views&#8221;, &#8220;Beg the question&#8221; and the ultimate: &#8220;Become personal, insulting, rude&#8221;. You&#8217;ll recognise these from many annoying and unsatisfying arguments you&#8217;ve had. This book helps you avoid them, and if necessary, use them yourself. Very useful, and all based on &#8220;the natural baseness of human nature&#8221;. Perhaps it&#8217;s best not to dwell on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Wikisource and the wonders of copyright law, you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/The_Art_of_Being_Right\">The Art of Always Being Right<\/a> online for free.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is not really about being right. It&#8217;s about winning arguments, even when you&#8217;re wrong. The 38 tactics include such classics as &#8220;Use your opponent&#8217;s views&#8221;, &#8220;Beg the question&#8221; and the ultimate: &#8220;Become personal, insulting, rude&#8221;. You&#8217;ll recognise these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2009\/11\/05\/the-art-of-always-being-right-arthur-schopenhauer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[42,4,28,45,29],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idea","category-review","tag-arguments","tag-books","tag-philosophy","tag-psychology","tag-schopenhauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}