Isaac Passy was a Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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n philosopher specializing in aesthetics

Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...

. He was a professor at Sofia University

Sofia University

The St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia or Sofia University is the oldest higher education institution in Bulgaria, founded on 1 October 1888...

 from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics. He was the father of Solomon Passy

Solomon Passy

Solomon Isaac Passy is a Bulgarian politician, foreign minister of Bulgaria from July 2001 until August 2005, and the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE in 2004. Dr. Passy is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy.- Summary :Solomon Passy was born in Plovdiv. He...

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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)
• Soren 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

Blaise Pascal , was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen...

, Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal...

, Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...

, Gustave LeBon, Dmitry Merezhkovski, Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize...

, Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...

, Carl Gustav Jung, Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.-Biography:...

, Jose Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. He was, along with Nietzsche, a proponent of the idea of perspectivism.-Biography:José Ortega y Gasset was...

, Soren Kierkegaard, Vladimir Solovyov

Vladimir Solovyov

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, Lev Shestov

Lev Shestov

Lev Isaakovich Shestov , born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann , was a Ukrainian/Russian existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev on , he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution. He lived in Paris until his death on November 19, 1938.- Life :Shestov was born Lev...

, Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious and political philosopher.-Early life and education:Berdyaev was born in Kiev into an aristocratic military family. He spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father's library allowed him to read widely...

, Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...

, Cicero

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...

, Horace

Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:...

and several others.