Aesthetic experience as a breakthrough from factuality to reality
The article is devoted to the philosophical views of the Russian thinker Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank on the nature of beauty and aesthetic experience. From the standpoint of Frank's philosophy, the conceptual foundations of aesthetic experience and the phenomenon of beauty are explicated and analyzed, the ontological dimension of beauty is indicated, and its materialistic and psychological interpretations are subject to criticism. It is shown that the main motive of aesthetic experience is a breakthrough from factuality to reality. In this connection, special attention is paid to the Russian philosopher's understanding of reality, being, beauty, beauty, and man - in their inseparable relationship.