Philosophy · Practical Philosophy
A topic within Practical Philosophy, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
2 works
Arthur Schopenhauer
Argues that reading too much and too passively fills the mind with other people's thoughts at the expense of one's own, and that genuine understanding requires thinking a question through independently first.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Arthur Schopenhauer
Catalogues the stratagems debaters actually use to win an argument regardless of who is right, presented deadpan as a manual so a reader can recognise and resist them.
link checked 17 Sept 2026