Meaning, purpose and ontological presuppositions of Jan Amos Komensky's anthropology

Abstract

The article deals with the ontological presuppositions of Jan Amos Komensky's anthropology. The author describes Komensky's dynamical and hierarchical conception of the universe, his conception of ontological substance and shows how ontological aspects of Komensky's work are organically bring into consonance with his anthropology, with his conception of human nature and with social and educational reformism.

Keywords

• ontology
• anthropology
• humanism
• human nature
• ontological substance
• mechanistic reductionism
• axiology
• panorthosia
• universalism