Semyon Frank

There's a Russian philosopher out there.

His name is Simeon Frank, Simeon Frank.

I'll spell it for you if you wanna look it up and read more of his work.

It's S-E-M-Y-O-N Frank, Simeon Frank.

And I believe he captured what's perhaps the most clear statement on answering this question, how did we get to where we are today? As anyone else has.

I'm gonna give you a quote of his.

Thus, the great love of the future gives birth to the great hatred for the people.

The passion for organizing an earthly paradise becomes a passion for destruction.

I mean, I think that's a healthier way to approach it.

And then more recently, I- I've been doing a lot of work on the 20th century Orthodox philosopher SL Frank.

He, he died in 1950.

But I actually just had a, an essay published today, so I would recommend it, at the Center for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics, so CEME, and it's on SL Frank's liberalism in the classical sense.

There's amazing parallels to Hayek and his understanding of spontaneous and planned orders in society, his understanding of the limits of empirical observation.

You know, there's kinda two, two forms of knowledge that he gets into.

You know, Jacques Maritain, for example, in the Roman Catholic tradition is a personalist.

But it, it's, it's very much a dynamic that comes out of that, and it's emphasizing this uniquely and essentially personal nature of social life.