Conception of Man in the Works of John Amos Comenius

Jan Čížek studied philosophy and history at Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The author is working as a Researcher and Assistant Professor at the universities in Olomouc and in Ostrava. His main scholarly interest is the history of Renaissance and Early Modern philosophy, the intellectual history and the work of J. A. Comenius.

• Contents: Comenius’s work in view of his conception of man – De rerum humanarum emendatione consultatio catholica – Comenius’s conception of man in the Consultatio as a system? – The conception of man in selected works of the panorthotic period – The conception of man in the works of the preparatory and pansophic periods – The conception of man in the works of John Amos Comenius – Possible sources of Comenius’s conception – Comenius’s anthropology in scholarly literature.