16th century in philosophy

This is a timeline of philosophy in 16th century.

Events

1872 painting of Martin Luther hammering his Nintey-five Theses to the door of a church, by Ferdinand Pauwels

• 1517 – Martin Luther hammers his Ninety-five Theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, an event which would mark the start of the Protestant Reformation.

Publications

• Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La Boétie
• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
• Dialoghi d'amore by Judah Leon Abrabanel^[1]
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Tantrasamgraha by Nilakantha Somayaji

Births

• 1504 – Janardan Swami, Indian Hindu scholar, statesman, poet and saint.
• 1511 – Tulsidas, Indian Hindu saint and poet.
• 1520 – Appayya Dikshita, Indian Hindu philosopher.
• 1528 – Pedro da Fonseca, Portuguese Jesuit philosopher and theologian.
• 1530 – Jean Bodin, French jurist and political philosopher.
• 1530 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge, writer, and philosopher.
• 1534 – Guru Ram Das, Sikh guru.
• 1541 – Uddharan Dutta Thakur, Indian philosopher and saint.
• 1540 – Madhusūdana Sarasvatī, Indian philosopher.
• 1544 – Dadu Dayal, Indian poet-saint religious reformer.
• 1548 – Francisco Suárez, Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian.
• 1548 – Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist.
• 1548 – Raghuttama Tirtha, Indian philosopher, scholar,  theologian and saint.
• 1550 – Mian Mir, Pakistani Sufi Muslim saint.
• 1560 – Sheikh Muhammad, Indian Muslim saint-poet.
• 1561 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman.
• 1563 – Guru Arjan, Sikh guru.
• 1564 – Ahmad Sirhindi, Indian Islamic scholar, Hanafi jurist, and member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order.
• 1564 – Galileo Galilei, polymath.
• 1571/72 – Mulla Sadra, Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, theologian, and ‘Ālim
• 1571 – Lakshmi Kumara Tatacharya, Indian Hindu saint and guru.
• 1574 – Robert Fludd, English Paracelsian physician.
• 1575 – Sabatino de Ursis, Italian Jesuit.
• 1575 – Jakob Böhme, German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian.
• 1576 – Caspar Schoppe, German catholic controversialist and scholar.
• 1588 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher.
• 1589 – John of St. Thomas, Portuguese Dominican friar, Thomist theologian, and professor of philosophy.

Deaths

• 1518 – Kabir, Indian mystic poet and sant.
• 1530 – Judah Leon Abravanel, Portuguese-Jewish, philosopher, physician, and poet.
• 1530 – Vallabha, Indian Hindu saint and philosopher.
• 1534 – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Indian saint.
• 1536 – Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
• 1539 – Vyasatirtha, Hindu philosopher, scholar, polemicist, commentator and poet
• 1541 – Jahnava Devi, Indian Hindu philosopher and saint.
• 1547 – Raghunatha Siromani, Indian philosopher and logician.
• 1552 – Guru Angad, Indian Sikh guru.
• 1557 – Raghuvarya Tirtha, Indian Hindu philosopher, scholar, theologian and saint.
• 1563 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge, writer, and philosopher.
• 1564 – Purandara Dasa, Indian composer, singer, Haridasa philosopher.
• 1564 – Rupa Goswami, Indian guru, poet, and philosopher.
• 1574 – Guru Amar Das, Indian Sikh guru.
• 1575 – Janardan Swami, Indian Hindu scholar, statesman, poet and saint.
• 1593 – Appayya Dikshita, Hindu philosopher.
• 1596 – Raghuttama Tirtha, Indian philosopher, scholar,  theologian and saint.

See also

• List of centuries in philosophy
• Renaissance

References

• Henrik Lagerlund and Benjamin Hill (eds). Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy. Routledge. 2017. Google Books
• Constance Blackwell and Sachiko Kusukawa (eds). Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Conversations with Aristotle. Ashgate Publishing. 1999. Routledge. 2016. Google Books.
• Richard H Popkin (ed). Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Free Press. 1966. Google Books
• Henry Osborn Taylor. Philosophy and Science in the Sixteenth Century. Collier Books. 1962. (Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century, volume 5). Google Books
• Anthony Kenny. A New History of Western Philosophy. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 2010. Part Three. Chapter 1. A New History of Western Philosophy. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 2006. Volume 3 (The Rise of Modern Philosophy). Chapter 1
• Lucien Paul Victor Febvre. The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. London. 1982. Chapter 10. Pages 354 et seq. Translated by Beatrice Gottlieb from Le probleme de l'incroyance au XVI siecle: la religion de Rabelais, Editions Albin Michel, 1942, 1968.
• "Philosophy in sixteenth-century Portugal" in "Brazil, Philosophy in". Edward Craig (ed). Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge. 1998. Volume 2. Pages 7 and 8.
• Junmai Zhang. Wang Yang-ming: Idealist Philosopher of Sixteenth Century China. St. John's University Press. 1962. Google Books

1. Hughes, Aaron (2022), Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), "Judah Abrabanel", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2022 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2024-10-10