S.L. Frank: The social dimension of the mystical

The article considers the social philosophy of S.L. Frank from the point of view of mysticism. The phenomenon of mystical experiences is explored by a wide range of related sciences that in one way or another affect the activities of human consciousness - such sciences as religious studies, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neurophysiology, cognitive science. "Mysticism" is that sphere of human life in which we do not find unambiguous definitions of its content, because of this specificity, every researcher of the phenomenon of "mystical" uses that interpretation that seems to him most adequately reflecting the reality of the phenomenon being studied. This reason opens up prospects for an interdisciplinary study of mysticism. A complex phenomenon in mysticism can be identified a number of aspects, one of which - social - and this article is devoted. In the social philosophy of S.L. Frank, we discover the doctrine of a certain community "We" as a special form of being, which reveals to us a genuine unity, hiding behind the many private "I". At the same time, the analyzed S.L. Frankly, the importance of the unifying moment in interpersonal interaction, which precedes any single human "I", is revealed in modern sociological and philosophical thought as a constitutive feature of social relations, which allows us to look at the teachings of SL from a new angle. Frank about the conciliarity. On this basis, on the one hand, we can talk about the social dimension of metaphysics, indicating at the same time the ontological devices of the universe (the static aspect of the given, the image of the staircase), and on the other hand, just about the social dimension of the mystical in philosophy. Frank, trying to point to the dynamic aspect (the image of a moving escalator), a person's access to a living reality that can be discovered and experienced by every person as the moment of the true being "We". Thus, the teaching of S.L. Frank about the catholicity as the true structure of society, can be regarded as the teaching of the mystical deep field of human interaction, through which the perspective of the relationship between the Society and the Absolute opens.

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