15th century in philosophy

This is a list of philosophy-related events in the 15th century.

## Contents

* 1 Events
* 2 Publications
* 3 Births
* 4 Deaths
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 Bibliography

## Events

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* List of centuries in philosophy

## References

* Alexander Broadie. History of Scottish Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press. 2009. Chapter 3. Pages 34 to 46.

1. ↑ Kristeller, p. 440
2. ↑

* Schmitt, p. 70
* Lepage, p. 27

3. ↑ Lorch, p. 214
4. ↑ Marsilio Ficino, entry by Christopher Celenza in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
5. ↑ Laos, p. 158
6. ↑ Vredeveld, Harry (1993). "The Ages of Erasmus and the Year of His Birth". Renaissance Quarterly 46 (4): 754–809. doi:10.2307/3039022.
7. ↑ Biard, Joel. "Major, John (1467–1550)". Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/major-john-1467-1550/v-1. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
8. ↑ Nasr, p. 209

## Bibliography

* 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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