Isaac Passy (; 13 March 1928 in

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– 13 August 2010) was a Bulgarian Jewish

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

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Solomon Passy Solomon Isaac Passy (; born 22 December 1956) is a Bulgarian scientist and politician. According to Alpha Research, he is the most recognized Bulgarian of Jewish descent. Currently, he is Chief Governance & Compliance Officer in EPIX.AI, a c ...

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 (19June 162319August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic Church, Catholic writer. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. His earliest ...

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

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philology, classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche bec ...

, Gustave LeBon, Dmitry Merezhkovski,

Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; ; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the S ...

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 seen as originating fro ...

Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. A prolific author of over 20 books, illustrator, and correspondent, Jung was a ...

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 ...

, Jose Ortega y Gasset,

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

, Vladimir Solovyov,

Lev Shestov Lev Isaakovich Shestov (; 31 January .S. 13 Februaryref name="ReferenceA">Martin, Bernard, Introduction to "Athens and Jerusalem" 1866 – 19 November 1938), born Yeguda Lev Shvartsman (), was a Russian existentialist and religious philosopher ...

Nikolai Berdyaev Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; ; – 24 March 1948) was a Russian Empire, Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialism, Christian existentialist who emphasized the existentialism, existential spiritual significance of Pe ...

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 novell ...

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

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). Th ...

and several others.

References

External links

* Isaac Passy - A Site About the Notable Bulgarian Philosopher
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