17th Century In Philosophy

This is a timeline of philosophy in the 17th century.

Events

* 1600 – Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist was burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome after being convicted of heresy.
* 1611 – The first Accademia dei Lincei is founded by Federico Cesi, which holds discussions that reject the traditional Aristotelian framework.
* 1620 – The establishment of Francis Bacon’s scientific method prompts reevaluation of empirical evidence in philosophy.
* 1633 – The Roman Inquisition finds Galileo “vehemently suspect of heresy" after he defended heliocentricism, challenging traditional Aristotelian cosmology.
* 1641 – René Descartes formulates the mind-body problem in his publication, Meditations on First Philosophy.
* 1643 – Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes correspond about their differing views on mind, soul, and immortality.
* 1649 – Christina, Queen of Sweden invites René Descartes to educate her in his philosophical views, particularly his insight into Catholicism.
* 1653 – Blaise Pascal has a spiritual vision of fire that convinces him of God's presence, which leads to him dedicating the rest of his life to theological and philosophical interests.
* 1656 – Portuguese-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza is excommunicated from the Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam after questioning rabbinic authority.
* 1660 – The Royal Society in the United Kingdom establishes after 12 natural philosophers at Gresham College decide to commence a "Colledge for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning.”
* 1668 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz took up a diplomatic position in Mainz, which exposed him to an extensive range of philosophical thought and would lead to rigorous philosophical production.
* 1670 – Pascal's wager is introduced, causing philosophers to analyze the rationality behind belief in God based on cost-benefit analysis.
* 1687 – Isaac Newton's ''Principia'' demonstrates that the universe operates around rational, discoverable laws, supporting the rise of empiricism and rationalism.

Publications

* ''Monita Politico-Moralia et Icon Ingeniorum'' by Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro
* ''Dissertatio, de Ingenii Muliebris ad Doctrinam, & meliores Litteras Aptitudine'' by Anna Maria von Shurman
* ''Quaestiones Quodlibeticae'' by Arnold Geulincx
* ''Logica fundamentis suis restituta'' by Arnold Geulincx
* ''Methodus inveniendi argumenta'' by Arnold Geulincx
* ''De virtute'' by Arnold Geulincx
* ''Opera philosophica'' by Arnold Geulincx
* '' La logique, ou l'art de penser'' by Antonie Arnauld and Pierre Nicole
* '' Grammaire générale et raisonnée'' by Antonie Arnauld and Claude Lancelot
* ''Ethics'' by Baruch Spinoza
* ''Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione'' by Baruch Spinoza
* '' Principia philosophiae cartesianae'' by Baruch Spinoza
* ''Tractatus Theologico-Politicus'' by Baruch Spinoza
* ''Court Traité Sur Dieu'' by Baruch Spinoza
* ''Pensées'' by Blaise Pascal
* '' Trois discours sur la condition des grands'' by Blaise Pascal
* '' Discours sur les passions de l'amour'' by Blaise Pascal
* ''A Cabbalistical Dialogue'' by Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
* '' Discours de Métaphysique'' by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
* ''Brevis Demonstratio Erroris Memorabilis Cartesii et Aliorum Circa Legem Naturae'' by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
* ''Divine Dialogues'' by Henry More
* ''Philosophical Poems'' by Henry More''Dictionary of National Biography''
More, Henry (1614–1687)

* ''Psychodoia Platonica: or, a Platonicall Song of the Soul'' by Henry More
* ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' by Issac Newton
* ''Certamen Philosophicum Propugnatæ Veritatis Divinæ ac Naturalis Adversus J. Bredenburgi Principia'' by Isaac Orobio de Castro
* ''Disputatio theologica practica de conscientia'' by Johannes Clausberg
* ''Two Treatises of Government'' by John Locke
* '' Epistola de tolerantia'' by John Locke
* ''An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'' by John Locke
* '' Tenure of Kings and Magistrates'' by John Milton
* ''An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language'' by John Wilkins
* ''The Nature of Bodies'' by Kenelm Digby
* ''On the Immortality of Reasonable Souls'' by Kenelm Digby
* ''Observations upon Experimental Philosophy'' by Margaret Cavendish
* ''Grounds of Natural Philosophy'' by Margaret Cavendish
* ''Philosophical Letters'' by Margaret Cavendish
* ''Some Reflections Upon Marriage'' by Mary Astell
* ''Animadversiones'' by Pierre Gassendi
* ''Exercitationes'' by Pierre Gassendi
* ''Syntagma philosophicum'' by Pierre Gassendi
* ''Dasbodh'' by Samarth Ramdas
* '' Les Passions de l'âme'' by René Descartes
* ''Discours de la Méthode'' by René Descartes
* '' Meditationes de Prima Philosophia'' by René Descartes
* '' L’Homme'' by René Descartes
* ''Meditationes de Prima Philosophia'' by René Descartes
* ''Considérations sur l'état présent de la controverse touchant le T. S. Sacrement de l'autel'' by Robert Desgabets
* ''Discours de la communication ou transfusion du sang'' by Robert Desgabets
* ''Critique de la critique de la Recherche de la vérité'' by Robert Desgabets
* ''Traité de l’indéfectibilité des créatures'' by Robert Desgabets
* ''Supplément à la philosophie de M. Descartes'' by Robert Desgabets
* ''Guide de la raison naturelle'' by Robert Desgabets''''
* ''Traité de l’union de l’âme et du corps'' by Robert Desgabets''''
* ''De legibus naturae'' by Richard Cumberland
* ''Leviathan'' by Thomas Hobbes
* ''De Cive'' by Thomas Hobbes
* ''De Corpore'' by Thomas Hobbes
* ''De Motu, Loco et Tempore'' by Thomas Hobbes
* ''The Horae Subsecivae'' by Thomas Hobbes
* ''Elementorum Philosophiae Sectio Secunda De Homine'' by Thomas Hobbes
* ''Problematica Physica'' by Thomas Hobbes
* ''Of Liberty and Necessity'' by Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall

Births

* 1600 – Elizabeth Foxcroft, English theosophist.
* 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish Jesuit and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.
* 1602 – William Chillingworth, English churchman.
* 1602 – Bartholomew Mastrius, Italian Conventual Franciscan philosopher and theologian.
* 1602 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar and polymath.
* 1603 – Kenelm Digby, English courtier, diplomat, and natural philosopher.
* 1603/ 04 – Issac Cardoso, Sephardic Jewish physician, philosopher, and polemic writer.
* 1603/04 – Anandghan, Śvetāmbara Jain monk, mystical poet and hymnist.
* 1605 – Thomas Browne, English polymath.
* 1606 – Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri, Indian natural philosopher and astronomer.
* 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.
* 1608 – Samarth Ramdas, Indian Hindu saint, philosopher, poet, writer, and spiritual master.
* 1609 – Kâtip Çelebi, Turkish polymath.
* 1610 – Robert Desgabets, French Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior.
* 1610 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese naturalist, political theorist, philosopher, and soldier.
* 1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician.
* 1614 – Henry More, English philosopher.
* 1614 – John Wilkins, English Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author.
* 1614 – Franciscus Mercurius van Helmon, Flemish alchemist and writer.
* 1617 – Ralph Cudworth, English Anglican clergyman, Christian Hebraist, classicist, theologian, and philosopher.
* 1617 – Isaac Orobio de Castro, Portuguese Jewish philosopher, physician, and religious apologist.
* 1617 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian inventor, architect, Egyptologist, scientist, instrument-maker, traveller, engineer, and nobleman.
* 1618 – Jacques Rohault, French philosopher, physicist, and mathematician.
* 1618 – John Smith, English philosopher, theologian, and educator.
* 1619 – Walter Charleton, English natural philosopher and writer.
* 1619 – Nathaniel Culverwell, English author and theologian.
* 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.
* 1623 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher, metaphysician, and logician.
* 1626 – Géraud de Cordemoy, French philosopher, historian, and lawyer.
* 1626 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor.
* 1625 – Francesco D'Andrea, Italian jurist and natural philosopher.
* 1627 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist, and inventor.
* 1627 – Hugh Binning, Scottish philosopher and theologian.
* 1627 – Itō Jinsai, Japanese Confucian philosopher.
* 1630 – Pierre Daniel Huet, French churchman, scholar, editor, and Bishop of Soissons.
* 1630 – Kaibara Ekken, Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist.
* 1631 – Richard Cumberland, English philosopher and Bishop of Peterborough.
* 1631 – Ann Conway, English philosopher.
* 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher and physician.
* 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, theologian, author, and political scientist.
* 1632 – Louis de La Forge, French philosopher.
* 1632 – Pierre-Sylvain Régis, French philosopher.
* 1633 – Walda Heywat, Ethiopian philosopher.
* 1634 – Balthasar Bekker, Dutch minister, philosopher, and theologian.
* 1635 – Yan Yuan, Chinese classicist, essayist, and philosopher.
* 1636 – Joseph Glanvill, English philosopher and clergyman.
* 1637/ 38 – Richard Burthogge, physician, magistrate, and philosopher.
* 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher.
* 1642 – Isaac Newton, English polymath.
* 1644 – Simon Foucher, French polemic philosopher.
* 1646 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher.
* 1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher, author, and lexicographer.
* 1649 – Samuel Bold, English clergyman and controversialist.
* 1649 – Samuel Johnson, English clergyman and political writer.
* 1650 – Michelangelo Fardella, Italian scientist and mathematician.
* 1655 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher.
* 1657 – John Norris, English philosopher, theologian, and poet.
* 1657 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French author and philosopher.
* 1659 – Damaris Cudworth Masham, English writer, philosopher, theologian, and Protofeminism, proto-feminist.
* 1659 – William Wollaston, English teacher, priest, scholar, theologian, and philosopher.
* 1661 – René-Joseph de Tournemine, French Jesuit philosopher and theologian.
* 1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher, historian, and teacher.
* 1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist.
* 1663 – Jean-Pierre de Crousaz, Swiss theologian and philosopher.
* 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.
* 1666 – Ogyū Sorai, Japanese historian, philologist, philosopher, and translator.
* 1666 – Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh Guru, warrior, poet, and philosopher.
* 1668 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.
* 1668 – Tommaso Campailla, Italian philosopher, physician, politician and poet.
* 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.
* 1671 – Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, priest, philosopher, theologian, mathematician, and engineer.
* 1672 – Gershom Carmichael, Scottish philosopher.
* 1675 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and Anglican cleric.
* 1675 – Yves Marie André, French Jesuit mathematician, philosopher, and essayist.
* 1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher and essayist.
* 1676 – Pietro Giannone, Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist.
* 1677 – Antonio Schinella Conti, Italian writer, translator, mathematician, philosopher, and physicist.
* 1678 – Robert Greene, English philosopher.
* 1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher.
* 1679 – Firmin Abauzit, French philosopher.
* 1679 – Catharine Trotter Cockburn, English novelist, dramatist, and philosopher.
* 1679 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher and essayist.
* 1680 – Arthur Collier, English Anglican priest and philosopher.
* 1683 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-born English natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason.
* 1685 – George Berkeley, Anglo-Irish philosopher.
* 1686 – John Balguy, English divine and philosopher.
* 1689 – Montesquieu, French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher.
* 1692 – Joseph Butler, English Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher.
* 1692 – Francesco Maria Zanotti, Italian philosopher and writer.
* 1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher.
* 1694 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist, political philosopher, economist, and historian.
* 1696 – Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian.
* 1696 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish writer, philosopher, and judge.
* 1698 – Alberto Radicati, Italian historian, philosopher and free-thinker.
* 1699 – Jacopo Stellini, Italian abbot, polymath writer, and philosopher.

Deaths

* 1600 – Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist.
* 1624/ 25 – Ahmad Sirhindi, Indian Islamic scholar, Hanafi jurist, and member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order.
* 1635/ 40 – Mulla Sadra, Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, theologian, and ‘Ālim.
* 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian polymath.
* 1644 – William Chillingworth, English churchman.
* 1649 – Caspar Schoppe, German catholic controversialist and scholar.
* 1651 – Nathaniel Culverwell, English author and theologian.
* 1652 – John Smith, English philosopher, theologian, and educator.
* 1653 – Hugh Binning, Scottish philosopher and theologian.
* 1657 – Kâtip Çelebi, Turkish polymath.
* 1658 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish Jesuit and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.
* 1662 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher.
* 1665 – Kenelm Digby, English courtier, diplomat and natural philosopher.
* 1665 – Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher.
* 1667 – Francesco Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal, philosopher, theologian, literary theorist, and church historian.
* 1672 – Jacques Rohault, French philosopher, physicist, and mathematician.
* 1672 – John Wilkins, English Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author.
* 1673 – Margaret Cavendish, English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer, and playwright.
* 1675 – Emanuele Tesauro, Italian philosopher, rhetorician, literary theorist, dramatist, Marinist poet, and historian.
* 1677 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher.
* 1678 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer.
* 1678 – Robert Desgabets, French Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior.
* 1679 – Elizabeth Foxcroft, English theosophist.
* 1679 – Ann Conway, English philosopher.
* 1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher.
* 1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar and polymath.
* 1681 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian inventor, architect, Egyptologist, scientist, instrument-maker, traveller, engineer, and nobleman.
* 1687 – Thomas Browne, English polymath.
* 1687 – Isaac Orobio de Castro, Portuguese Jewish philosopher, physician, and religious apologist.
* 1687 – Henry More, English philosopher.
* 1687 – William Petty, English economist, physician, scientist, and philosopher.
*1688 – Ralph Cudworth, English Anglican clergyman, Christian Hebraist, classicist, theologian, and philosopher.
*1688 – François Bernier, French physician and traveller.
* 1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician.
* 1695 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese naturalist, political theorist, philosopher, and soldier.
* 1696 – Simon Foucher, French polemic philosopher.
* 1698 – Franciscus Mercurius van Helmon, Flemish alchemist and writer.
*1699 – Edward Stillingfleet, English Christian theologian and scholar.

See also

* List of centuries in philosophy
*Age of Enlightenment

References

Further reading

*Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers (eds). The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 1998. First paperback edition. 2003
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*Dan Kaufman (ed). The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy. 2017
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*Stuart Hampshire. The Master Philosophers: The Age of Reason: The 17th Century Philosophers. A Meridian Classic. New American Library. Meridian Books. Reprint. 1993
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*Peter R Anstey (ed). The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. 2013
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* Wiep Van Bunge. From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic. Brill. Leiden, Boston, Koln. 2001
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*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
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*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
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*Ross Harrison. Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion's Masterpiece: An Examination of Seventeenth Political Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 2003
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*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
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*Susan James. Passion and Action: The Emotions in Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Clarendon Press. Reprinted 1999
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*Jacqueline Broad. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press. 2003
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*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")
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