1656 in philosophy

1656 in philosophy

Events

Blaise Pascal writes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
Baruch Spinoza is expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam.{{cite book |last1=Curley |first1=Edwin |title=A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works |date=31 March 2020 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-20928-9 |page=xii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yf3RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR12}}

James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana.
John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus de Rerum Natura, translation and commentary.{{cite book |title=The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JKTD2B2jxA8C |editor=Peter France |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=507 |date=2000 |isbn=9780198183594}}
Thomas Hobbes, the expanded English translation of his De Corpore (1655).{{cite book |title=Thomas Hobbes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gitLAAAAMAAJ |author=Alfred Edward Taylor |publisher=A. Constable |location=London |page=19 |date=1908 |archive-date=2023-08-05 |access-date=2023-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805054317/https://books.google.com/books?id=gitLAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}

11 October - William Molyneux{{cite book |title=British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wiOaCAAAQBAJ |author=Sarah Hutton |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |page=197 |date=2015 |isbn=9780191059506}}

8 September - Joseph Hall
{{ca.}} 1 October - John Bulwer
30 October - Ferruccio Baffa Trasci
Kim Jip{{cite book |title=Korea: A Religious History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iUf8AQAAQBAJ |author=James H. Grayson |publisher=Taylor and Francis |location=Milton Park, United Kingdom |page=120 |date=2013 |isbn=9781136869181}}