Semyon Frank and Henri Bergson
摘要
Henri Bergson was one of the philosophers with whom Semyon Frank confessed feeling the deepest affinity. In this article, I compare the philosophies of Bergson and Frank. I begin by sketching Frank’s general mature worldview and the way Bergson’s philosophy pertains to it. I then present the most salient points of convergence between the two philosophers on each one of the following interdependent thematic categories: intuition or living knowledge, time or durée (duration), creative evolution or élan vital, psychic life, mysticism, religion, more specifically the philosophers’ mutual belief that Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism, and, finally, their reciprocal kinship with Spinoza.