14th century in philosophy

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This is a timeline of philosophy-related events in the 14th century.

Events

  • 1324 - William of Ockham was ordered to Avignon to defend his interpretation of Peter Lombard's Sentences (1150) before the papal court.{{Cite book |last=Olson |first=Roger E. |title=The story of Christian theology: twenty centuries of tradition & reform |date=1999 |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=978-0-8308-1505-0 |location=Downers Grove, Ill}}
  • 1365 - The University of Vienna was founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria.
  • 1370 - A Vietnamese Confucian mandarin, Lê Quát, unsuccessfully attempted to have Buddhism, the favoured religion of the Trần dynasty, declared heretical.{{Cite journal |last=Ly |first=Hieu Tung |date=2021-09-01 |title=Impacts of Confucianism on Vietnamese culture |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40636-021-00228-y |journal=International Communication of Chinese Culture |language=en |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=347–361 |doi=10.1007/s40636-021-00228-y |issn=2197-4241|url-access=subscription }}
  • 1384 - Ibn Khaldun became Professor of the Qamhiyyah Madrasah in Egypt.{{Cite book |last=Syed Farid Alatas |title=Applying Ibn Khaldun: the recovery of a lost tradition in sociology |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-1-138-12596-4 |series=Routledge advances in sociology |location=London New York}}

Publications

Births

  • 1320 - Albert of Saxony (d.1390), German philosopher and mathematician.
  • 1328 - Yi Saek (d.1396), Korean writer, poet and philosopher at Sungkyunkwan academy.{{Cite web |last=Herald |first=Korea |date=2022-05-06 |title=[Scholars and their Spaces] Sowing the seeds of Korean Neo-Confucianism, Yi Saek and Munheonsewon |url=https://www.koreaherald.com/article/2859012 |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=The Korea Herald |language=en}}
  • 1332 - Ibn Khaldun (d.1406), Arab Islamic scholar, philosopher, historian and sociologist.
  • 1337 - Chŏng Mong-ju (d.1392), Korean statesman, diplomat, philosopher, poet, calligrapher and reformist of the Goryeo period.{{Cite web |last=dayhist.com |title=Chŏng Mong-ju: The Iconic Korean Scholar and Diplomat |url=https://dayhist.com/persons/cheng-mong-ju-iconic-korean-scholar |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=dayhist.com |language=en}}
  • 1342 - Chŏng Tojŏn (d.1398), Korean scholar-official during the late Goryeo to the early Joseon periods.
  • 1352 - Kwŏn Kŭn (d.1409), one of the first Neo-Confucian scholars of the Joseon dynasty.
  • 1353 - Kil Chae (d.1419), Korean scholar-official near the end of the Goryeo dynasty.{{Cite book |last=Yi |first=Ki-baek |title=A new history of Korea |date=1984 |publisher=Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute by Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-61575-5 |location=Cambridge, Mass |language=en, ko}}
  • 1380 - Nguyễn Trãi (d. 1442), Vietnamese Confucian scholar, poet and politician.
  • 1396 - Chŏng Inji (d.1478), Korean historian and Neo-Confucian scholar.

Deaths

  • 1306 - An Hyang (b.1243), Korean Confucian scholar.
  • 1308 - John Duns Scotus (b.1255/6), Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian.{{Citation |last=Williams |first=Thomas |title=John Duns Scotus |date=2019 |work=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/duns-scotus/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |edition=Winter 2019 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}
  • 1316 - Pietro d'Abano (b.1357), Italian philosopher, astrologer, physician and professor of medicine in Padua.Premuda, Loris. "Abano, Pietro D'." in Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (1970). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Vol. 1: p.4-5.
  • 1316 - Ramon Llull, philosopher, theologian and poet from Parma.
  • 1317 - Purna Prajna (b.1278), Indian philosopher, theologian and proponent of the Dvaita school of Vedanta.{{Cite web |title=Madhva {{!}} Vedanta, Dvaita & Bhagavata {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Madhva |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
  • 1322 - Petrus Aureoli (b.1280), scholastic philosopher and theologian.{{Cite web |title=On Auriol – The Peter Auriol Homepage |url=https://www.peterauriol.net/who/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |language=en-US}}
  • 1328 - Meister Eckhart (b.1260), German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic.
  • 1333 - Wú Chéng (b.1249), Neo-Confucian thinker in the late Song dynasty and Yuan dynasty.
  • 1342 - U T'ak, (b.1262), Korean Neo-Confucian scholar and philosopher during the Goryeo dynasty.
  • 1345 - Cheng Duanli (b.1271), Neo-Confucian scholar of the Yuan Dynasty.
  • 1347 - Abner of Burgos (b.1270), Castilian polemical writer and Jewish philosopher who converted to Christianity.{{cite book |last1=Szpiech |first1=Ryan |title=From Testimonia to Testimony: Thirteenth-Century Anti-Jewish Polemic and the Mostrador de justicia of Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid |date=2006 |publisher=Dissertation, Yale University |hdl=2027.42/64011}}
  • 1347 - William of Ockham (b.1287), Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and theologian from Surrey.{{Citation |last=Spade |first=Paul Vincent |title=William of Ockham |date=2025 |work=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |edition=Summer 2025 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |last2=Panaccio |first2=Claude |last3=Pelletier |first3=Jenny |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}
  • 1358 - Adam of Wodeham (b.1298), English philosopher and theologian.{{Citation |last=Slotemaker |first=John T. |title=Adam de Wodeham |date=2025 |work=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wodeham/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |edition=Spring 2025 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |last2=Witt |first2=Jeffrey C. |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}
  • 1370 - Chu Văn An (b.1292), Confucian, teacher, physician, and high-ranking mandarin of the Trần dynasty in Đại Việt.
  • 1390 - Albert of Saxony (b.1320), German philosopher and mathematician.
  • 1391 - Mādhavācārya (b.1296), Indian scholar usually identified with Vidyaranya, the jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham from 1374-1380 until 1386.{{Cite web |title=Biography of Sri Vidyaranya |url=https://www.sringeri.net/jagadgurus/sri-vidyaranya/biography |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.sringeri.net |language=en}}
  • 1392 - Chŏng Mong-ju (b.1337), Korean statesman, diplomat, philosopher, poet, calligrapher and reformist of the Goryeo period.
  • 1396 - Yi Saek (b.1328), Korean, writer, poet and philosopher at Sungkyunkwan academy.
  • 1398 - Chŏng Tojŏn (b.1342), Korean scholar-official during the late Goryeo to the early Joseon periods.

See also

Further reading

  • Frederick Denison Maurice. Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy. New Edition. Macmillan and Co. London. 1872. Volume 2 ("Fourteenth century to the French Revolution with A Glimpse into the Nineteenth Century"). Chapter 1 ("The Fourteenth Century"). Pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=1jJJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 1] to 33.
  • William J Courtenay. Changing Approaches to Fourteenth-Century Thought. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. 2007. (Etienne Gilson series, volume 29). [https://books.google.com/books?id=4o4EAQAAIAAJ Google Books].
  • Stephen F Brown, Thomas Dewender and Theo Kobusch (eds). Philosophical Debates at Paris in the Early Fourteenth Century. Brill. Leiden and Boston. 2009. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7scYdGEoY1UC&pg=PP1 Google Books]

Notes

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Date of birth also given as 1246 and 1250.

Date of death also given as 1278.

Date of birth also given as 1199.

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