Schopenhauer wrote The Art of Being Right (or Eristic Dialectics) to systematize "the tricks, stratagems, and baseness" we employ when we argue with the sole purpose of making our ideas prevail. At the time when Hegel pointed to dialectics as the only path to achieving the culmination of the Spirit, Schopenhauer, his irreducible antagonist, understood it as the foil to wield in the particular fencing match that any argument represents. Therefore, he decided to gather in this pamphlet thirty-eight stratagems that, in his opinion, transform dialectics into an "art of sophistry," since they obscure the search for truth, the ultimate reason for philosophy.