The Metaphor of Harmony in Early Modern Knowledge Organisation. Comenius’ Pansophy Caught between Aesthetics and Mechanics

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.56" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.56</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.56" target="_blank" >10.46854/fc.2025.1s.56</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Metaphor of Harmony in Early Modern Knowledge Organisation. Comenius’ Pansophy Caught between Aesthetics and Mechanics

Original language description

Johann Amos Comenius is often regarded as a “thinker of harmony.” He systematically implemented the metaphor of harmony into his epistemological framework to articulate the natural “consonance” of all things, emulate the divine order, and regulate the coherence of contemporary knowledge. This “complex” metaphor, rich with musical, mechanical, mathematical, and cosmological connotations reflects his advanced intellectual inclination toward order and exposes the key sources shaping his conceptual thought. This study explores how Comenius uses this conventional metaphor within an innovative framework, introducing it into the domain of knowledge organisation. It integrates both semantic and cognitive approaches to metaphor analysis. From a semantic standpoint, it conceptualizes harmony as a multifaceted metaphor that drew on a variety of source domains during the early modern period, incorporating not only musical elements but also rich mechanical connotations. From the perspective of cognitive theory, this study examines how Comenius uses this metaphor to articulate his epistemological ideas on the syncretic structure of knowledge. By utilising digital tools developed within the TOME project, Comenius’ use of the harmony metaphor is situated within the broader context of early modern scholarly discourse.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/LL2320" target="_blank" >LL2320: The Origins of Modern Encyclopaedism: Launching Evolutionary Metaphorology</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Filosofický časopis

ISSN

0015-1831

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

56-84

UT code for WoS article

001651309100004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105030212145