"Eristics, or the Art of Winning in Disputes" is the work of the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860) . *Eristics is the science of the correct conduct of a dispute, when one of the interlocutors will always remain with his opinion, that is, he will remain right. Other notable works of A. Schopenhauer's are On Will in Nature, On Free Will, On the Basis of Morals, The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics, On the Fourfold Root of the Law of Sufficient Reason, and The World as Will and Representation. Arthur Schopenhauer was called a "pessimist philosopher": he considered the existing world "the worst possible", in contrast to the German thinker Gottfried Leibniz.