THE CONCEPT OF “SPIRITUAL REALITY” IN THE SEMYON L. FRANK’S PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

In the digital age, the issues of human spirituality are becoming more and more relevant. The universal principles of morality, the ideas of humanism should increasingly become guidelines for actions both for an individual and for the domestic and foreign policy of states. The religious and philosophical concept of S.L. Frank is of particular value and relevance, since it has developed deep systematic ideas about both the spiritual structure of the world and the inner structure of the human personality. The concept of “spiritual reality” has become one of the main ones in his system. The concepts of personal God, reality, and Self are connected with it. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct S.L. Frank’s religious and philosophical concept in its relation to the concept of “spiritual reality”. The article emphasizes the peculiarity of the philosopher’s doctrine of realism, its proximity to the platonic tradition of idealism. The article shows how such attitudes make it possible to formulate moral ideals, to defend high values. The article examines the structure of personality from the point of view of its relation to spiritual reality, when human subjectivity or the inner world goes beyond its limits into the spiritual world. The concept of “spiritual reality” is used by S.L. Frank to show the sublimity of the human being, his connection with the divine reality. The article concludes that this concept marks the boundary between the world of the Self and the real, objective world. The concept of “spiritual reality” denotes the meaning of life in its social and personal aspects, it correlates with personality and the world of spiritual values.