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This is a study belonging to the project for the close reading of the Pansophia, the third part of the 17th century Czech thinker Johannes Amos Comenius's major work in his later years, entitled De rerum humanarum emandatione concultatio catholica, and follows the papers appeared in the Studies in the Humanities and Sciences, Vol. LXIX, No.1 (Hiroshima Shudo University, September, 2024) and Vol. LXIX, No.2 (Hiroshima Shudo University, February, 2025). This article considered, after reporting on the digitizing the entire text of Pansophia, which was conducted as a preparatory work of this project, the key tone of Pansophia.
Even in the existing text of Pansophia, which contains many missing parts, the religious topics account for a high proportion. Taking the missing parts into account, it is thought that the key tone of Pansophia was even more weighted on religion than the text in our hands. It shows that the universality of the emendation programs proposed by Comenius was not neutral or abstract, but unique and particular, as far as it originated from his own religious belief. Such a claim of universalism may seem alien in modern society, where secularization has progressed. However, if the penetration of nihilism is causing the stagnation in various social activities, Comenius's desire for universality cannot simply be considered an outdated idea. This point must be kept in mind for the upcoming studies of his philosophical thinking of universality and his thoughts around the validity of religious beliefs.
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