Tři podoby dedikace Komenského všenápravného souboru Consultatio catholica

• Authors: Steiner Martin

Title variants

EN

THREE FORMS OF COMENIUS’S DEDICATION TO CONSULTATIO CATHOLICA – UNIVERSAL IMPROVEMENT COLLECTION

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Comenius introduced his central piece of work General Consultation on the Improvement of Human Affairs with a celebratory dedication entitled by the salutation Europae lumina, viri docti, pii, eminentes, salvete (“Greetings, lights of Europe, men of learning, piety and eminence”). He rewrote this dedication twice, his emendations involving primarily further supplements to the text. The comparison of the three available texts allows for insight into the author’s thought not only on the dedication itself, but also on the whole of General Consultation. In this respect some role is played by brief descriptions – in most cases including a title – of individual parts of General Consultation in the opening of the dedication and their comparison with the final front-page forms of all seven parts of the work; it is possible to trace some shifts in emphasis on their content elements. Other changes concern above all accentuation of the aspect of universality and emphasis on urgency of appeals for participation in the improvement process. At the same time, however, we can also see a tendency towards appeasement of extreme emotions, and a milder and kinder attitude towards the addressees of the dedication – i. e. the prospective collaborators in the task of the universal improvement of human affairs.

Keywords

EN

J. A. Comenius – improvement of human affairs; J. A. Comenius – work with own texts; J. A. Comenius – shifts in the universal improvement conception; J. A. Comenius – General Consultation

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 137
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 293-313

Contributors

author

Steiner Martin

• Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Oddělení pro komeniologii a intelektuální dějiny raného novověku, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic