Annotation
The main goal of this course is to explain the philosophical legacy of John Amos Comenius. The course focuses on the following topics: the localization of Comenius in the history of European thought; the problem of Comenius' double grounding in the philosophical tradition (the synthesis of Christian Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism) and modernity (ambiguous reactions to the new age of thinking, his relationship to Francis Bacon, R.
Descartes, etc.); the relationship between philosophy and theology in Comenius’ thoughts; the components of Comenius' philosophy - metaphysics, gnoseology, ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of education; the philosophically-based doctrine of education as an original contribution by Comenius to European thinking; the philosophy of nonviolence; and historical changes in the evaluation of Comenius' thoughts and work.