Semyon Frank (1877–1950) opposed the Neo-Kantian School and admitted the real existence of the objects of cognition. He treated ontologism as essential to the entire movement of Russian religious philosophy. For Frank, one can only know about something thanks to the absolute, which exists prior to the knowing subject. Ontologism, affirming the priority of being over cognition, has a great significance not only for metaphysics and epistemology, but also for the philosophy of religion. In particular, Frank taught that the most privileged mode of cognition of God is intuition, an immediate experience of God or faith (the so-called living knowledge). Intuition is at the heart of the ontological proof, which can be found in St. Anselm, Descartes, and Frank himself. Frank dedicated a number of articles to this topic: “K istorii ontologicheskogo dokazatel’stva” (“On the History of the Ontological Proof,” 1915), “Ontologicheskoe dokazatel’stvo bytiya Boga” (“Ontological Proof of the Existence of God,” 1930), as well as texts recently discovered at the Bakhmeteff Archive, including “Dokazatel’stvo bytiya Boga” (“Proof of the Existence of God”). In this way, Russian ontologism leads to a new interpretation of the traditional ontological proof, one which acknowledges the existence of God, not on the basis of arguments resting on His definition, but on the basis of the intuitive recognition of His being.

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Semyon Frank 中的本体论

谢苗弗兰克（1877-1950）反对新康德学派，承认认知对象的真实存在。他将本体论视为整个俄罗斯宗教哲学运动的基本要素。对于弗兰克，人们只能通过绝对来了解某事，而绝对是在认识主体之前就存在的。本体论肯定了超越认知的优先性，不仅对形而上学和认识论，而且对宗教哲学都具有重要意义。特别是，弗兰克教导说，对上帝最有特权的认知模式是直觉，即对上帝或信仰的直接体验（所谓的活生生的知识）。直觉是本体论证明的核心，可以在 St. Anselm、笛卡尔和弗兰克本人中找到。弗兰克为此主题撰写了多篇文章：“K istorii ontologicheskogo dokazatel'stva”（“On the History of the Ontological Proof,”1915），“Ontologicheskoe dokazatel'stvo bytiya Boga”（“上帝存在的本体论证明”，1930），以及最近发现的文本在 Bakhmeteff 档案馆，包括“Dokazatel'stvo bytiya Boga”（“上帝存在的证明”）。通过这种方式，俄罗斯本体论导致了对传统本体论证明的一种新解释，这种解释承认上帝的存在，不是基于基于他的定义的论证，而是基于对他存在的直觉认识。包括“Dokazatel'stvo bytiya Boga”（“上帝存在的证明”）。通过这种方式，俄罗斯本体论导致了对传统本体论证明的一种新解释，这种解释承认上帝的存在，不是基于基于他的定义的论证，而是基于对他存在的直觉认识。包括“Dokazatel'stvo bytiya Boga”（“上帝存在的证明”）。通过这种方式，俄罗斯本体论导致了对传统本体论证明的一种新解释，这种解释承认上帝的存在，不是基于基于他的定义的论证，而是基于对他存在的直觉认识。