Pansophism, in older usage often pansophy, is a concept in the educational system of universal knowledge proposed by
John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius (; cs, Jan Amos Komenský; pl, Jan Amos Komeński; german: Johann Amos Comenius; Latinization (literature), Latinized: ''Ioannes Amos Comenius''; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Czech Philosophy, philosopher, Ped ...
, a Czech educator. "
omenius'ssecond great interest was in furthering the
Baconian attempt at the organization of all human knowledge. He became one of the leaders in the encyclopædic or pansophic movement of the seventeenth century".
Pansophic principle
The pansophic principle is one of the important principles of
Comenius
John Amos Comenius (; cs, Jan Amos Komenský; pl, Jan Amos Komeński; german: Johann Amos Comenius; Latinized: ''Ioannes Amos Comenius''; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considere ...
: that everything must be taught to everyone, as a guiding basis for education, something like
universal education
Universal access to education is the ability of all people to have equal opportunity in education, regardless of their social class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnic background or physical and mental disabilities. The term is used both in col ...
(
Characteristica universalis
The Latin term ''characteristica universalis'', commonly interpreted as ''universal characteristic'', or ''universal character'' in English, is a universal and formal language imagined by Gottfried Leibniz able to express mathematical, scienti ...
).
''Pansophism'' was a term used generally by Comenius to describe his pedagogical philosophy. His book ''Pansophiae prodromus'' (1639) was published in London with the cooperation of
Samuel Hartlib
Samuel Hartlib or Hartlieb (c. 1600 – 10 March 1662)
M. Greengrass, "Hartlib, Samuel (c. 1600–1662)", ''Oxford D ...
. It was followed by ''Pansophiae diatyposis''. Pansophy in this sense has been defined as ‘full adult comprehension of the divine order of things’. He aimed to set up a Pansophic College, a precursor of later academic institutes He wrote his ideas for this in a tract ''Via lucis'', written 1641/2 in London; he had to leave because the
English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of re ...
was breaking out, and this work was eventually printed in 1668, in Amsterdam.
The term was not original, having been applied by
Bartolomeo Barbaro of
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
in his ''De omni scibili libri quadraginta: seu Prodromus pansophiae'', from the middle of the sixteenth century.
Pansophic Freemasonry
A group within
Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...
is called ''Pansophic Freemasonry''.
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References
External links
* {{Citation , url = http://www.pansophic.info/ , title = Pansophic info , url-status = dead , archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080319012541/http://www.pansophic.info/ , archivedate = 2008-03-19 .
Pedagogy