Isaac Passy ( bg, Исак Паси; 13 March 1928 in

Plovdiv Plovdiv ( bg, Пловдив, ), is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace. It has a population of 346,893 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is the c ...

– 13 August 2010) was a Bulgarian Jewish

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Renowned Bulgarian Jews specializing in history, literature">history.html" ;"title="Renowned Bulgarian Jews specializing in history">Renowned Bulgarian Jews specializing in history, literature and aesthetics. He was a prominent professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He published over 40 monographs and edited some 80 volumes with philosophical texts and in history of philosophy from various epochs. He is the father of the Bulgarian politician and diplomat

Solomon Passy Solomon Isaac Passy ( bg, Соломон Исак Паси) (born 22 December 1956) is a Bulgarian scientist, politician, and innovator, founder and President of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria (since 1990), Foreign Minister in the 20012005 Saks ...

Selected bibliography

* ''Tragic'' (1963) * ''Philosophical Literary Studies'' (1968, 1981, 1987, 1993) * ''Funny'' (1972, 1979, 1993, 2001, 2002) * ''Thomas Mann'' (1975, 2008) * ''Aesthetics of Kant'' (1976) * ''French moralists'' (1978) * ''Essays'' (1981, 1987, 1993) * ''German classical aesthetics'' (1982, 1985, 1991) * ''Metaphor'' (1983, 1988, 1995, 2001, 2002) * ''Aesthetics of German Romanticism'' (1984) (collection) * ''At the Sources of Modern Aesthetics'' (1987) * ''Problems, people, memories'' (1992) * ''Autobiographical essays and articles'' (1994, 1997, 2002) * ''Towards a philosophy of life. Eight philosophical portrait'' (1994) * ''Biography of the Spirit'' (1994, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007) * ''Thoughts and Thinkers'' (1995, 1998) * ''Russian Thinkers'' (1996, 2000) * ''Friedrich Nietzsche'' (1996) * ''Arthur Schopenhauer'' (1998) * ''Søren Kierkegaard'' (1998) * ''Human and People'' (1998) * ''Fragments. Miniatures. Travels'' (1998) * ''Contemporary Spanish Philosophy: Miguel de Unamuno and human tragedy, Jose Ortega y Gasset and the sociology of our century'' (1999) * ''Philosophical fragments and miniatures'' (2000) * ''Ralph Waldo Emerson'' (2000) * ''Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche'' (2001) * ''Nikolai Berdyaev. Portrait of Philosophical Experience'' (2001) * ''Justification of human behavior: 14 social-psychological Essays'' (2002) * ''Selected Works in 6 volumes'' (2003-2004) * ''Man does not live only with reason: Ten Essays on European iratsionalizam'' (2006) * ''Reasons for human behavior: 60 social-psychological Essays'' (2006) * ''French thinkers'' (2007) * ''Portraits of Philosophy'' (2007) * ''Philosophical portraits, miniatures and fragments'' (2008) * ''Philosophical messages'' (2008) * ''Autobiography. Forty-four philosophical experiences'' (2009)

Edited books of great thinkers

Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal ( , , ; ; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic Church, Catholic writer. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pa ...

Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer ( , ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work ''The World as Will and Representation'' (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the prod ...

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...

Gustave LeBon Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (; 7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work '' The Crow ...

, Dmitry Merezhkovski,

Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...

Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philo ...

Miguel de Unamuno Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca. His major philosophical essay w ...

Jose Ortega y Gasset Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. *Jose ben Abin * Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galilea ...

Søren Kierkegaard Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( , , ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on ...

, Vladimir Solovyov,

Lev Shestov Lev Isaakovich Shestov (russian: Лев Исаа́кович Шесто́в; 31 January .S. 13 February 1866 – 19 November 1938), born Yehuda Leib Shvartsman (russian: Иегуда Лейб Шварцман), was a Russian existentialist and ...

Nikolai Berdyaev Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; – 24 March 1948) was a Russian Empire, Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialism, Christian existentialist who e ...

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...

and several others.

References

External links

* * Isaac Passy - A Site About the Notable Bulgarian Philosopher
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