15th century in philosophy
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This is a list of philosophy-related events in the 15th century.
Events
- 1433 â Baverius de Bonittis starts teaching philosophy and logic at the University of Bologna[1]
- 1433 â Ambrogio Traversari completed his translation of Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers[2]
Publications
- 1433 â Lorenzo Valla publishes his much modified second edition of De voluptate (On Pleasure) while on sojourn in Pavia[3]
- 1499 â Niccolò Machiavelli, Discorso sopra le cose di Pisa
- 1500 â Desiderius Erasmus, Collectanea Adagiorum
Births
- 1433 â 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 â Nil Sorsky (d. 1508), Russian Hesychast[5]
- c.1467 â Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536).[6]
- 1467 â John Major (or Mair) (d. 1550). Scottish logician[7]
Deaths
- 1432 or 1433 â 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 â Marsilio Ficino (b. 1433). See § Births
