15th century in philosophy

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

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.

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.
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• 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.