The art of being right

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Sílvia Faustino de Assis Saes¹ 

[1] Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA;

关键词: Schopenhauer;    Dialética;    Erística;   

DOI  :  10.5902/2179378633799

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper intends to show how Schopenhauer‟s „eristic dialectics‟, defined by him as „the art of being right‟, arise from the combination of two lines of thought on dialectics: the Aristotelian tradition, in which dialects are understood as an argumentative discourse based on generally accepted notions; and the tradition set in motion by Kant, which understands dialectics as a logic of appearances or of illusion. The interpretation we favor, and which we intend to argue in this work, is the following: while attempting to assimilate and to go beyond the teachings of both traditions, Schopenhauer sets forth the basic elements of a kind of communicative rationality in which the polemical functioning of language, understood as the effective instrument of a certain „will of power‟, becomes the sole factor which determines the consolidation of social beliefs and values.

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