Sigismund Gelenius belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Sigismund Gelenius as Bohemian humanist and scholar (1497–1554).
Sigismund Gelenius was born at Prague in 1497.
Recovered classical texts and the printing press reopened questions that had been treated as settled for centuries.
Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
Sigismund Gelenius died in 1554, aged 57. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
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