15th century in philosophy
This is a list of philosophy-related events in the 15th century.
Events
[edit]- 1433 – Baverius de Bonittis starts teaching philosophy and logic at the University of Bologna[1]
- 1433 – Ambrogio Traversari completed his translation of Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers[2]
Publications
[edit]- 1433 – Lorenzo Valla publishes his much modified second edition of De voluptate (On Pleasure) while on sojourn in Pavia[3]
- 1499 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Discorso sopra le cose di Pisa
- 1500 – Desiderius Erasmus, Collectanea Adagiorum
Births
[edit]- 1433 – Marsilio Ficino (d. 1499).[4] Christian Neoplatonist, head of Florentine Academy and major Renaissance Humanist figure. First translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin.
- 1433 – Nil Sorsky (d. 1508), Russian Hesychast[5]
- c.1467 – Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536).[6]
- 1467 – John Major (or Mair) (d. 1550). Scottish logician[7]
Deaths
[edit]- 1432 or 1433 – Ibn Turkah (Sa'in al-Din Turkah Isfahani), an influential Turcoman scholar and Sufist philosopher at the School of Isfahan, exiled by Tamerlane until the latter's death. The date of Ibn Turkah's death is uncertain; either 1432 or 1433.[8]
- 1499 – Marsilio Ficino (b. 1433). See § Births
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Alexander Broadie. History of Scottish Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press. 2009. Chapter 3. Pages 34 to 46.
- ^ Kristeller, p. 440
- ^
- Schmitt, p. 70
- Lepage, p. 27
- ^ Lorch, p. 214
- ^ Marsilio Ficino, entry by Christopher Celenza in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- ^ Laos, p. 158
- ^ Vredeveld, Harry (1993). "The Ages of Erasmus and the Year of His Birth". Renaissance Quarterly. 46 (4): 754–809. doi:10.2307/3039022. JSTOR 3039022. S2CID 251375496.
- ^ Biard, Joel. "Major, John (1467–1550)". Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- ^ Nasr, p. 209
Bibliography
[edit]- Kristeller, Paul Oskar, Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters, Volume 3, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1993 ISBN 8884983339.
- Laos, Nicolas, The Metaphysics of World Order, Pickwick Publications, 2015 ISBN 9781498201018.
- Lepage, John L., The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ISBN 1137281812.
- Lorch, Maristella de Panizza, "Voluptas, molle quoddem et non invidiosum nomen: Lorenzo Valla's defense of Voluptas in the preface to his De voluptate", pp. 214–228 in, Mahoney, Edward Patrick (ed), Philosophy and Humanism, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976 ISBN 9004043780.
- Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present, State University of New York Press ISBN 0791481557.
- Schmitt, Charles B., "John Wolley (ca. 1530–1596) and the first Latin translations of Sextus Empiricus", pp. 61–70 in, Watson, Richard A. (ed); Force, James E. (ed), The Sceptical Mode in Modern Philosophy, Springer, 2012 ISBN 9400927444.
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