What is metaphysics

What is metaphysics

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One of the defining properties of the person is constant search and dissatisfaction found. Throughout all life we try to learn the world, but the more we move ahead in it, the more we set to ourselves questions. Constantly generalizing and looking for the most global answers, the mankind created, probably, the most disputable and uncertain field of knowledge - metaphysics.

Strangely enough, with classical physics this direction has nothing in common. The prefix "meta" in this case makes sense "beginning", "source", and an essence of science in finding the prime cause of all human life and existence of the world. On metaphysics 14 volumes of Aristotle in which he argues on "first labor real" are considered as one of the first treatises. Today, the metaphysics as a philosophical current is formed on a number of the main questions: "What it is possible to consider the reason of all reasons and the beginning of any beginning?", "That there is the most basic operation on the basis of which all others are stood?", "What first theorem from which all others are brought and how to prove it without use of any axioms?" In spite of the fact that these questions have no obvious practical focus and someone can be called "demagogy", for philosophical systems and concepts they have paramount value. The answer on these them becomes a reference point for all other thoughts, works and works of the thinker; only certain natural axioms help to confirm fidelity of reasonings of the author. It is important to note, however, that the metaphysics almost is never considered in the first works of the philosopher. More likely, on the contrary – metaphysical questions arise when all others are solved, how "the concept of the world" is built and ordered. If to add to it impossibility of finding of the only answer about "the reasons of the reasons", then it is quite obvious that the metaphysics is absolutely subjective section of already not too concrete science - philosophy. Today the metaphysics loses the value and demand, in many respects it is connected with total absence of qualitative value. For example, L. Wittgenstein in the works defines this section of knowledge as a language game which has no decision of itself and is completely senseless. The similar trend in reasonings is observed among all intellectual community that can shortly lead to total rejection of a similar branch of science.

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