Having read through a large portion of the book of S. Frank, and very much esteeming the power and substance of his thought, I had the impression, that the problem of evil was nowhere brought out by him, that by virtue of an inner necessity it was absent in his monist philosophy. But at the very end, the problem nonetheless was put forth, and for me this was the weakest side of the book. First though, before moving on to a consideration of evil, I want to make yet several remarks. S. Frank demonstrates persuasively, that actuality is but a snippet of the rational within reality. Actuality, as a whole, is never knowable.
Reality is deeper than the being of the object.
Hence there mustneeds be made the inference, that being is not primary. The primary-given reality is the concrete man. Any sort of proof then of the existence of God is impossible, save through the existence of man, in whom is a Divine principle. On principle S. Frank acknowledges the commensurability between man and God, and to him is foreign that godlessness of man, which makes for an abstract transcendentism. But for S. Frank, God is the Absolute.