Semyon Frank 1877 – 1950
Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank was a Russian Orthodox religious philosopher and one of the foremost metaphysicians of the Russian religious renaissance of the early twentieth century. After early involvement with Marxism, he turned to religious philosophy under the influence of Solovyov and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1922 with the Philosophers' Ship. He spent the rest of his life in Berlin, Paris, and London. His Object of Knowledge, Spiritual Foundations of Society, and The Unfathomable develop a Neoplatonic metaphysics of all-unity and a sustained account of the limits of discursive thought.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Russian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental, Christian
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Semyon Frank:
“Reality is unfathomable; we approach it only through living knowledge.”
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Attributed to Semyon Frank:
“We know being from within, not from without.”
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Attributed to Semyon Frank:
“All true knowledge is theistic at root.”
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Attributed to Semyon Frank:
“Society is the form of love among persons.”
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Attributed to Semyon Frank:
“The mystery of being is not a problem to be solved but a depth to be inhabited.”