only part of being. Frank taught that existence was being but also becoming. As becoming, one has dynamic potential. Thus one's future is indeterminate since reality is both rational and irrational. As reality includes the unity of rationality and irrationality i.e. of necessity and freedom. Frank's position was for the existence of free will. Bibliography Vekhi [Landmarks] (1907) Der Gegenstand des Wissens. Grundlagen und Grenzen der begrifflichen Erkenntnis [Knowledge. Principles and Limitations of Conceptual Perception] (1915) (French translation, 'La Connaissance et l'etre', 1937) Dusha Cheloveka (1917) (English tr., 'Man's Soul', 1993) The Methodology of the Social Sciences (1921) [in Russian] Vvedenie v philosophiyu (i.e. 'Introduction to Philosophy') (1922) Zhivoe znanie (1923) Krushenie kumirov [i.e. 'The Downfall of idols'] (1924) Religion and Science [in Russian] (1924) Smysl zhizni (1926) (English tr., 'The Meaning of Life', 2010) The Basis of Marxism [in Russian] (1926) Die geistigen Grundlagen der Gesellschaft (1930) [also in Russian] (English tr., 'The Spiritual foundations of society', 1987) Realität und Mensch [Reality and Mankind] Nepostizimoe (i.e. 'The Unfathomable') (1939) (English tr., 'The unknowable: an ontological introduction to the philosophy of religion', 1983) God With Us: Three Meditations ... Translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington (1946) Light and Darkness [in Russian] (1949) (English tr., 'Light shineth in darkness', 1989) V. Solovyev: an anthology (1950) Reality and man (1956) See also Nikolai Lossky Philosophers' ship Russian philosophy References Further reading T. Obolevitch, 'Negative theology and science in the thought of Semyon Frank', in Studies in East European Thought; 62:1 (2010), p. 93-99 Russian Religious Thought, ed. J. D. Kornblatt, R. F. Gustafson (1996. University of Wisconsin Press) and P. Boobbyer, S. L. Frank: the life and work of a Russian philosopher 1877-1950 (1995) N. Zernov, The Russian Religious Renaissance of the Twentieth Century (1963), esp. p. 158-163 N. O. Lossky, 'S.L. Frank', in N. O. Lossky, History of Russian Philosophy (1952), p. 266-292 ( «История российской Философии »(1951. Allen & Unwin, London ASIN: B000H45QTY International Universities Press Inc NY, NY sponsored by Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary) В. Куприянов, "Трансформация философии длительности А. Бергсона в идеал-реализме С.Л. Франка" (The Transformation of Bergson’s Philosophy of Duration in S.L. Frank’s Ideal-Realism), in "History of Philosophy", Vol. 21. No 1 / 2016, pp. 128–135. External links S.L. Frank on Orthodox Wiki 1877 births 1950 deaths Writers from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd 20th-century Russian philosophers Russian Orthodox Christians from Russia Jewish philosophers Russian