Close Reading of Pansophia of Johannes Amos Comenius (5)

Shinichi Sohma

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. This article examines how social and cultural differences among human beings were perceived in Pansophia through the useage of terms related to differences in sex, age, occupation, status, economics, and ability. As a result, it was made clear that the perspective of Pansophia was to accept human differences at the accidental level while considering to which direction these differences should be lead.

Studies in The Humanities and Sciences

Hiroshima Shudo University

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1883-1400