16th century in philosophy

This is a list of philosophy-related events in the 16th century (16th-century philosophy).

Publications

• 1501 – Nilakantha Somayaji, Tantrasamgraha
• 1532 – Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
• 1536 – John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
• 1576 – Étienne de La Boétie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

Births

• 1528 – Pedro da Fonseca (d. 1599)
• 1530 – Jean Bodin (d. 1596)
• 1 November 1530 – Étienne de La Boétie (d. 1563)
• 5 January 1548 – Francisco Suárez (d. 1617)
• 22 January 1561 – Francis Bacon (d. 1626)
• 17 January 1574 – Robert Fludd (d. 1637)
• 1575 – Sabatino de Ursis (d. 1620)
• 24 April 1575 – Jakob Böhme (d. 1624)
• 5 April 1588 – Thomas Hobbes (d. 1679)
• 9 June 1589 – John of St. Thomas (d. 1644)
• 17 January 1600 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca (d. 1681)

Deaths

• 12 July 1536 – Erasmus of Rotterdam (b. 1466)
• 18 August 1563 – Étienne de La Boétie (b. 1530)
• 17 February 1600 – Giordano Bruno (b. 1548)

See also

• List of centuries in philosophy

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