14th century in philosophy

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. 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. 1384 - Ibn Khaldun became Professor of the Qamhiyyah Madrasah in Egypt.

Publications

1323 - The Summa Logicae, William of Ockham. 1377 - The Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun. 1390 - Iphak doseol, Kwŏn Kŭn. 1397 - Sambong chip, Chŏng Tojŏn.

Births

1320 - Albert of Saxony (d.1390), German philosopher and mathematician. 1328 - Yi Saek (d.1396), Korean writer, poet and philosopher at Sungkyunkwan academy. 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. 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. 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. 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. 1322 - Petrus Aureoli (b.1280), scholastic philosopher and theologian. 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. 1347 - William of Ockham (b.1287), Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and theologian from Surrey. 1358 - Adam of Wodeham (b.1298), English philosopher and theologian. 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. 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 List of centuries in philosophy

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 1 to 33. William J Courtenay. Changing Approaches to Fourteenth-Century Thought. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. 2007. (Etienne Gilson series, volume 29). 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. Google Books

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