Pansophic Mirrors of the Soul: Comenius, Pinder and the Transformation of Cusan Optics

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pansophic Mirrors of the Soul: Comenius, Pinder and the Transformation of Cusan Optics

Original language description

By his own account Jan Amos Comenius discovered the works of Nicholas of Cusa through his reading of the Speculum intellectuale felicitatis of the Nuremberg humanist Ulrich Pinder. However, while Cusa’s influence on Comenius is well known, that of Pinder remains unconsidered. Indeed, Pinder has been mined simply as a Cusan source and not considered as a Comenian influence in his own right. Yet Pinder’s skilful compiling places Cusan conceptualities in new frames and alongside different figures (e.g. Bonaventure, Peter of Limoges, Pico, Baptista Mantuanus) offering a profound interpretative lens through which to view the fifteenth-century German Cardinal. Placing Comenius’ reading of Pinder in the wider context of the Neo-Platonic metaphysics of light this paper investigates his reception of optical metaphors of knowledge (eye, mirror, glasses etc) considering the Speculum as a prototype for the Panaugia and Pansophia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-02938S" target="_blank" >GA19-02938S: Early Modern Encyclopaedism in the Centre and on the Peripheries: Lavinheta, Apáczai Csere, Comenius, Leibniz</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Comeniana

ISSN

0231-5955

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

34/58

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

39

Pages from-to

9-47

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85133259309