THE PROBLEM OF RATIONAL AND IRRATIONAL IN THE HISTORICAL                                     AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS: ONTOGNOSEOLOGICAL ASPECT 

Babina Vera Nikolaevna, Candidate of philosophy, associate professor, sub-department of philosophy, Penza State University, dep_ph@pnzgu.ru

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The article is devoted to analysis of some difficult and controversial problems of philosophy – relationship between rational and irrational reality and cognition. The problem is addressed in a broad historical perspective, that allows to avoid unduly limiting of the problem. The author examines the evolution of the concepts of the rational and the irrational and the changes of their meaning. 

rational, irrational, cognition, worldview.