Ivan Sarailiev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Ivan Sarailiev (Sofia, June 1, 1887 – Sofia, May 23, 1969) was a Bulgarian philosopher related to the school of pragmatism.; he finished his major book Pragmatism in 1938 quoting from Charles Sanders Peirce’s Collected Papers.
Sarailiev was the first pragmatist in Eastern Europe and also a "very early pragmatist".
He also introduced the idea of implied reader in his reception theory as early as in Savremennata nauka y religiata (1931) (Contemporary Science and Religion). After graduating from high-school in Sofia in 1905, Sarailiev won a scholarship in the Sorbonne, Paris, and in 1909 he continued his studies in the Oxford University.
He attended the lectures of Henri Bergson and Charles Sanders Peirce among others. After a short stay in Germany (1916-1918), Sarailiev started teaching Philosophy in the Sofia University "St.
Kliment Ohridski".
His lectures placed accent on Immanuel Kant, George Berkeley, Henri Bergson and Thomas Carlyle.Sarailiev traveled through the United Kindgdom (1924-1925) and the United States (1931-1933).
The communists taking of power in Bulgaria brought Sarailiev's travels to an end and isolated him from international scholarly community and he was also banned from publishing"Other important books of his include: Rodovi idei (1919), Za volyata (1924) (Essay on Will) and Socrat (1947) (Socrates).
He also translated Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley in 1914.

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