10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANSOPHISM»
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pansophism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pansophism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Western Philosophy of Education
5 PANSOPHISM Comenius' efforts for educational reform were inspired by
religious motives. However, the great interests of his life, apart from religion, lay
in a scheme of universal knowledge or pansophism. This influenced and
sometimes ...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pansophism, in older usage often pansophy, is a concept of omniscience, meaning "all-knowing." In some monotheistic belief systems, a god is referred as the ultimate knowing spirit.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn,
2012
3
Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob Boehme's Haunted Narrative
(4) Boehme's pansophism has proximate precedents in Paracelsus and Weigel,
both of whom seek a wisdom that envelops the knowledge of nature and
Scripture. But not even the bravest texts of these authors—for example, the
former's ...
4
Educational Philosophy: A History from the Ancient World to ...
In the lexicon of some scholars, universal wisdom is defined as pansophism, a
theory so ambitious as to assign to schools the function of communicating
encyclopedic knowledge to their students. It is hard to believe that Comenius or
anyone ...
5
Camden House History of German Literature
... blessed domestic and communal harmony. Comenius developed his ideas on
pansophism, as harmony of morality and science, under the influence of the
encyclopedic thought of the Calvinist Johann Alsted ( 1588-1638) of Herborn.
Camden House Publishing,
2001
6
Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science: The ...
In the seventeenth century the spiritualist tradition was associated primarily with
the name of Helmont, but it merged with an ongoing quest for an encyclopedic or
unified science known as 'pansophism' :241 we shall treat the two together as ...
Christopher B. Kaiser,
1997
7
Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of ...
Comenius's writings on pansophism and his practical linguistic works were so
widely received throughout the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that
Zinzendorf must have come into contact with the foundations of Comenius's
projects.
8
Values in Sustainable Development
Some of these val- ues are pansophism, godlessness, complementary dualism,
existential gratitude, live and let live, sacred feminine, and Nwanne, Ifunanaya na
Eziokwu (brother- hood, love, and truth). Pansophism is the idea that in reality ...
The study of selected works by the artist in relation to two Protestant movements,
Millenarianism and Pansophism, reveals that Rembrandt was deeply inspired by
the irenic and eschatological ideals of these visionary doctrines.1 Pansophism ...
10
Agam: Beyond the Visible
Notes I . Jan Amos Komensky ( 1 592- 1 670), born in Moravia, developed the
philosophy of pansophism and was a major figure in the humanistic tradition of
education. As a member of the Moravian Brethren (a Protestant sect), he became
a ...