Panharmonia und Panchresia. J. A. Komenskýs Antwort auf die alte Frage nach der Lehrbarkeit der Tugend

• Authors: Schaller Klaus

Title variants

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Panharmonia and Panchresia: J. A. Comenius’ Answer to the Age-Old Question of Whether Virtue Can Be Taught

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The question of whether virtue can be taught had already been posed in antiquity and remains of interest to this day. Comenius’ pansophia, with its component elements of panharmonia and panchresia, answers the question in a way which combines antiquity and modernity. This essay breaks down Comenius’ solution, which has not yet received sufficient attention, into four steps: I. a comparison of Comenius and Francis Bacon; II. an analysis of Comenius’ Via lucis, Pampaedia, Pansophia Christiana and Pansophiae diatyposis; III. an interpretation of the revived classical Greek ideal of kalokagathia in the works of Comenius and later of Kant and J. F. Herbart; and IV. a reflection on the present-day significance of Comenius’ universalistic educational principle of omnes omnia omnino.

Keywords

EN

Jan Amos Comenius; pansophy; panharmonia; panchresia

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Comeniana (International review of Comenius studies and early modern intellectual history)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 22-23
• Pages: 133-147

Contributors

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Schaller Klaus

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