17th century in philosophy
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This is a timeline of philosophy in the 17th century.
Events
[edit]- 1600 – Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist was taken to the Campo de' Fiori, naked, with his "tongue imprisoned because of his wicked words" and was burned alive at the stake.[1]
- 1633 – The Roman Inquisition finds Galileo “vehemently suspect of heresy" after he defended heliocentricism, challenging traditional Aristotelian cosmology.[2]
- 1649 – Christina, Queen of Sweden invited René Descartes to educate her in his philosophical views, particularly his insight into Catholicism.[3][4]
- 1660 – The Royal Society in the United Kingdom is established after a meeting at Gresham College of 12 natural philosophers who decide to commence a "Colledge for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning.”[5]
Publications
[edit]- Monita Politico-Moralia et Icon Ingeniorum by Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro[6]
- Dissertatio, de Ingenii Muliebris ad Doctrinam, & meliores Litteras Aptitudine by Anna Maria von Shurman[7]
- Pensées by Blaise Pascal
- Discours de Métaphysique by Gottfried Leibniz
- Brevis Demonstratio Erroris Memorabilis Cartesii et Aliorum Circa Legem Naturae by Gottfried Leibniz[8]
- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Issac Newton
- Tenure of Kings and Magistrates by John Milton
- The Nature of Bodies by Kenelm Digby[9]
- On the Immortality of Reasonable Souls by Kenelm Digby[9]
- Some Reflections Upon Marriage by Mary Astell[10]
- Animadversiones by Pierre Gassendi[11][12]
- Les Passions de l'âme by René Descartes
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Births
[edit]- 1600 – Elizabeth Foxcroft, English theosophist.
- 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish Jesuit and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.
- 1603 – Kenelm Digby, English courtier, diplomat and natural philosopher.
- 1605 – Thomas Browne, English polymath.
- 1607 – Francesco Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal, philosopher, theologian, literary theorist, and church historian.
- 1607 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer.
- 1609 – Kâtip Çelebi, Turkish polymath.
- 1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician.
- 1614 – Henry More, English philosopher.
- 1614 – John Wilkins, English Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author
- 1617 – Ralph Cudworth, English Anglican clergyman, Christian Hebraist, classicist, theologian, and philosopher.
- 1618 – Jacques Rohault, French philosopher, physicist, and mathematician.
- 1618 – John Smith, English philosopher, theologian, and educator.
- 1620 – Claude Frassen, French Franciscan Scotist theologian and philosopher.
- 1620 - François Bernier, French physician and traveller.
- 1622 – Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher.
- 1623 – Margaret Cavendish, English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer, and playwright.
- 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
- 1623 – William Petty, English economist, physician, scientist, and philosopher.
- 1627 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist, and inventor.
- 1627 – Hugh Binning, Scottish philosopher and theologian.
- 1630 – Ann Conway, English philosopher.
- 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher and physician.
- 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, theologian, author, and political scientist.
- 1632 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist, political philosopher, economist and historian.
- 1632 – Louis de La Forge, French philosopher.
- 1632 – Pierre-Sylvain Régis, French philosopher.
- 1633 – Walda Heywat, Ethiopian philosopher.
- 1634 – Balthasar Bekker, Dutch minister, philosopher, theologian.
- 1637/38 – Richard Burthogge, physician, magistrate and philosopher.
- 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher.
- 1642 – Isaac Newton, English polymath.
- 1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher, author, and lexicographer.
- 1649 – Samuel Bold, English clergyman and controversialist.
- 1649 – Samuel Johnson, English clergyman and political writer.
- 1655 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher.
- 1659 – Damaris Cudworth Masham, English writer, philosopher, theologian, and proto-feminist.
- 1661 – René-Joseph de Tournemine, French Jesuit philosopher and theologian.
- 1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher, historian, and teacher.
- 1665 – Ingeborg i Mjärhult, Swedish natural healer, natural philosopher, soothsayer and spiritual visionary.
- 1665 – Richard Bentley, English classical scholar, critic, and theologian.
- 1665 – Peter Browne, Irish Anglican priest.
- 1668 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.
- 1670 – Bernard Mandeville, Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist, satirist, writer and physician.
- 1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English peer, Whig politician, philosopher, and writer.
- 1675 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher.
- 1675 – Yves Marie André, French Jesuit mathematician, philosopher, and essayist.
- 1678 – Robert Greene, English philosopher.
- 1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher.
- 1679 – Firmin Abauzit, French philosopher.
- 1685 – George Berkeley, Anglo-Irish philosopher.
- 1686 – John Balguy, English divine and philosopher.
- 1692 – Joseph Butler, English Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher.
Deaths
[edit]- 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian polymath.
- 1649 – Caspar Schoppe, German catholic controversialist and scholar.
- 1677 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher
- 1662 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher.
- 1675 – Emanuele Tesauro, Italian philosopher, rhetorician, literary theorist, dramatist, Marinist poet, and historian.
- 1699 – Edward Stillingfleet, English Christian theologian and scholar
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Fitzgerald, Timothy (2007). Discourse on Civility and Barbarity. Oxford University Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-19-804103-0. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
- ^ Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2014). "Introduction". The Trial of Galileo : Essential Documents. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated. pp. 1–4. ISBN 978-1-62466-132-7.
..one of the most common myths widely held about the trial of Galileo, including several elements: that he "saw" the earth's motion (an observation still impossible to make even in the twenty-first century); that he was "imprisoned" by the Inquisition (whereas he was actually held under house arrest); and that his crime was to have discovered the truth. And since to condemn someone for this reason can result only from ignorance, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness, this is also the myth that alleges the incompatibility between science and religion.
- ^ Eike Pies [in German] (1996). Der Mordfall Descartes : Dokumente, Indizien, Beweise (in German). Solingen : Brockmann. ISBN 978-3930132058.
- ^ Theodor Ebert [in German] (2009). Der rätselhafte Tod des René Descartes (in German). Alibri Verlag. ISBN 978-3865690487.
- ^ National Museum of Australia, Acton Peninsula. "National Museum of Australia - The Royal Society of London". www.nma.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
- ^ Fredro, Andrzej Maksymilian (1700). Monita politico-moralia et icon ingeniorum (in Latin).
- ^ Schurman, Anna Maria van (1641). Dissertatio, de ingenii muliebris ad doctrinam, & meliores litteras aptitudine Anna Maria à Schurman accedunt quaedam epistolae, ejusdem argumenti. Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Elzevir.
- ^ William H. Trapnell (1988). The Treatment of Christian Doctrine by Philosophers of the Natural Light from Descartes to Berkeley. Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-7294-0363-4.
- ^ a b Digby, Kenelm (1644). Two treatises in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of mans soule is looked into in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules.
- ^ "Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Consider'd". digital.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ Saul Fisher (31 May 2005). "Pierre Gassendi". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ^ Pierre Gassendi (1649). Animadversiones in decimum librum Diogenis Laertii: qui est De vita, moribus, placitisque Epicuri. Continent autem Placita, quas ille treis statuit Philosophiae parteis 3 I. Canonicam, …; - II. Physicam, …; - III. Ethicam (in Latin). Lyon: Guillaume Barbier.
Further reading
[edit]- Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers (eds). The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 1998. First paperback edition. 2003. Volume 2.
- Dan Kaufman (ed). The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy. 2017. Google Books.
- Stuart Hampshire. The Master Philosophers: The Age of Reason: The 17th Century Philosophers. A Meridian Classic. New American Library. Meridian Books. Reprint. 1993. Google Books.
- Peter R Anstey (ed). The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. 2013. Google Books.
- Wiep Van Bunge. From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic. Brill. Leiden, Boston, Koln. 2001. Google Books
- José R Maia Neto. Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy: The Charronian Legacy 1601–1662. (International Archives of the History of Ideas 215). Springer. 2014. Google Books.
- G A J Rogers, Tom Sorell and Jill Kraye (eds). Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. Taylor and Francis e-Library. 2009. Routledge. 2010. Google Books.
- Ross Harrison. Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion's Masterpiece: An Examination of Seventeenth Political Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 2003. Google Books
- Tom Sorell, G A J Rogers, Jill Kraye (eds) Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles. (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 24). Springer. 2010. Google Books.
- Susan James. Passion and Action: The Emotions in Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Clarendon Press. Reprinted 1999. Google Books.
- Jacqueline Broad. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press. 2003. Google Books.
- Henry Hallam. Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. John Murray. Ablemarle Street, London. 1839. Volume 4. Chapter 3 ("History of Speculative Philosophy from 1650 to 1700"). Page 182 et seq.