Brief biography Frank
In childhood, he received home education with his grandfather, Moses Mironovich of Russiansky, who was in the 19ths of the XIX century one of the founders of the Moscow Jewish community and from whom he perceived interest in the philosophical problems of religion. In the year, the family moved to Nizhny Novgorod, where Frank graduated from a gymnasium, after which he entered Moscow University.
While still a gymnasium student took part in the Marxist circle, under the influence of which he entered the law faculty of Moscow University. In the city of the first printed work of Frank, “The theory of the values of Marx” was devoted to criticism of Marxism G. Frank published the first philosophical sketch “Nietzsche and the love of the distant” - since that time, the work of Frank has become completely connected with the problems of philosophy.
After passing the master's exam, Frank G. Frank defended the master's thesis “The subject of knowledge”; His book “The Soul of Man”, published in the city of Berdyaev, with which he worked together in Moscow at the Academy of Spiritual Culture. From G. died of lung cancer on December 12 in London. He was buried in the Handonian cemetery. Frank's philosophical interests are diverse, but traditionally he is considered a successor of the philosophy of unity.
Franca belongs to the following works on philosophy: “subject of knowledge”, “methodology of social sciences”, “introduction into philosophy”, “living knowledge”, “philosophy and life”, “meaning of life”, “spiritual foundations of society”, “russische welchuung”, “incomprehensible”, “light in the darkness”, “reality and man”. Zenkovsky writes the following about the style and philosophical interests of Frank: “Frank has an exceptional gift of clear presentation - his thought, which is always developed systematically, conquers as much thoroughness as successful formulas, which very often cost long reasoning.
The literary talent of Frank makes his tests and reasoning directly masterful - so everything is clear, appropriately and successfully said with him. But next to this, the depth of his philosophical discretion is not at all inferior - his mind, synthetic in essence, is fertilized by the metaphysics of the unity that Frank develops in his works - always original and deeply.
By the power of the philosophical vision of Frank, without hesitation can be called the most outstanding Russian philosopher in general - not only among those close to him by ideas. We have a very harmonious, thoughtful system in the works of Frank - only on aesthetics, and according to the philosophy of history, he limited himself to accidental remarks.
But logic, epistemology, metaphysics, anthropology, ethics - they have developed in the spirit of metaphysics of all -unity very deeply, with excellent knowledge of the main literature. The very philosophical position of Frank, the systematic mainly its principle, was extremely favorably affected by the development of individual problems ... It is very difficult to say something definite about the influences that affected the work of Frank, but it should be noted the general impact on Frank Vl.
True, the Frank system itself developed somewhat away from Solovyov’s general concept, but, for example. In the preface to the book, Frank writes: “If you must be attributed to a certain philosophical“ sect ”, then we recognize ourselves belonging to the old but still outdated sect Platonikov.” But then, speaking of his admiration for the system of Plotinus and Nikolai Kuzansky, Frank writes: “We personally turned to these forgotten thinkers only when the philosophical worldview that had already developed in us made us carefully relate to their systems.” In one place of the same book, we read: “The general doctrine of the laws of thinking and the limitations of their application, developed in similar forms by A.
Vvedensky and I. Lapshin, served for us the impetus for the development of our own theory, in which we also come to the limitations of the application of logical laws.” It seems to us that the “own theory”, which is about the boundaries and meaning of logical laws and the central core of which is the doctrine of the “metric unity”, was only a consequence of the main and genetically initial idea of unity.
In any case, for the Frank system, the concept of unity is not only central and fundamental, but it is it that makes the methodological principle that it dominates in all analyzes of Frank. ” Frank himself - and this is very strongly affected by the tendencies of critical rationalism, in particular transcendentalism - is inclined to build his system based on the analysis of our knowledge: this is how both its main books are built - the early “subject of knowledge” and the later G.
But from the analysis of knowledge of the Frank himself, it follows that “we are looking for not one, but two knowledge: abstract knowledge expressed in judgments and concepts, and the direct intuition of the subject in its metological integrity and continuity” - intuition or contemplation is “primary knowledge” for the franc. In any case, it is primary at the Frank itself, and we will most easily enter its system if we learn its primary intuition.As a philosopher, Frank builds a system in order to “substantiate”, “comprehend” this intuition, but it is it that is “Idee Directrice” in his thoughts.
” The main works of S. Frank “The subject of knowledge. On the foundations and limits of abstract knowledge "" The soul of a person is the experience of introducing into philosophical psychology "" Essay on the methodology of social sciences "" The spiritual foundations of society "" God with us ", in English. List of essays about the philosopher doctrine of all -unity as ontological epistemology Frank and Kuzansky.