THE ART OF CONTROVERSY***


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THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER: THE ART OF CONTROVERSY

TRANSLATED BY

T. BAILEY SAUNDERS, M.A.







CONTENTS.

  THE ART OF CONTROVERSY--
  1. PRELIMINARY: LOGIC AND DIALECTIC
  2. THE BASIS OF ALL DIALECTIC
  3. STRATAGEMS
     ON THE COMPARATIVE PLACE OF INTEREST AND BEAUTY IN WORKS OF ART
     PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
     ON THE WISDOM OF LIFE: APHORISMS
     GENIUS AND VIRTUE




TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The volume now before the reader is a tardy addition to a series in
which I have endeavoured to present Schopenhauer's minor writings in
an adequate form.

Its contents are drawn entirely from his posthumous papers. A
selection of them was given to the world some three of four years
after his death by his friend and literary executor, Julius
Frauenstaedt, who for this and other offices of piety, has received
less recognition than he deserves. The papers then published have
recently been issued afresh, with considerable additions and
corrections, by Dr. Eduard Grisebach, who is also entitled to
gratitude for the care with which he has followed the text of the
manuscripts, now in the Royal Library at Berlin, and for having drawn
attention--although in terms that are unnecessarily severe--to a
number of faults and failings on the part of the previous editor.

The fact that all Schopenhauer's works, together with