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Pansophism
Sign in to savethumb|John Amos Comenius created the main concepts of Pansophism in the mid-1600s. Pansophism (from Greek pansophos and English -ism,), also known as pansophy, is a pedagogical concept aimed to educate humanity to a complete understanding of everything. It was proposed by Czech philosopher John Amos Comenius in the mid-1600s.
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Conceptions of pansophism
- General conception
- History
- Educational reform
- Later esoteric reinterpretations
- The Pansophic Lodges
- ''Pansophers.com''
- ''Pansophic Freemasonry''
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|John Amos Comenius created the main concepts of Pansophism in the mid-1600s. Pansophism (from Greek pansophos and English -ism,), also known as pansophy, is a pedagogical concept aimed to educate humanity to a complete understanding of everything. It was proposed by Czech philosopher John Amos Comenius in the mid-1600s.
"[Comenius's] second 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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pansophism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.