âSquaring the Circleâ: Cusan Metaphysics and the Pansophic Vision of Jan Amos Comenius

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According to Charles Lohr, Nicholas of Cusa was instrumental in inaugurating a new and profoundly Trinitarian vision of reality. One of the most important inheritors of this legacy was the Czech theologian and pedagogue Jan Amos Comenius (1592â1670), who was deeply influenced by Cusanus, and especially his notion of the coincidence of opposites. In particular, as Jan PatoÄka has shown, Comeniusâ famous pansophic method was clearly shaped by his reading of Cusanusâ De docta ignorantia and other works. Building on this scholarship, this chapter seeks to examine the specifically Trinitarian character of this pansophic vision, in the context of both Comeniusâ philosophical works and his anti-Socinian tracts. For Comenius the upholding of the natural knowledge of the Trinity was a crucial weapon against the Socinian heresy. Yet in affirming this he was well aware of the need to balance the competing claims of sense, reason and faith. Tracing Comeniusâ developing discussion of the Cusan motif of âsquaring the circleâ it demonstrates the role of the coincidence of opposites in unifying his philosophical and theological thought. It then shows the way in which this emerged in Comeniusâ mature attempt to develop an alternative mathesis universalisÂ â one which affirmed with Descartes and the new philosophy the mathematical structure of all reality, but always remained open to its Trinitarian and transcendent ground.

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Nicholas of Cusa and the Making of the Early Modern World

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