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Metaphysics and Dogmatism
The present article provides a brief characteristic of the three concepts of metaphysics that emerged during the history of philosophy. The ёrst one, the concept by Descartes, indicates metaphysics as the fundament for philosophy; the second one, the concept by Hegel, understands metaphysics as a rational style of thinking. Aristotle claims that the initial concept contains the idea of the extrasensory reality which is the object of metaphysics as a division or a type of philosophy. The article substantiates the connection of metaphysics with the agent’s conёdence of the objectiveness of cognition, or dogmatism. It states the principal antagonism of dogmatism and skepticism as epistemological mindsets. It arrives at the conclusion that dogmatism is an epistemological and an ontological phenomenon which manifests itself in the agent’s conёdence of objective learning of the world, of the creative power of mind and its ability of absolute value construction. The presented characteristic of dogmatism points at its underlying role in both cognitive activity and in the establishment of different types of world outlook.