Wednesday 13 May 2026, 10:00, Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy, Jilská 1, Praha 1 (main meeting room)
Andrés Luis Jaume Rodríguez (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
lecture
The Deparment of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History
Like Descartes, Comenius also had his own peculiar “crusade” against skepticism. Comenius reflects on skepticism from four perspectives: an existential dimension, linked to “selfhood” and the subject’s isolation; a methodological-reformist perspective, which interprets skepticism as a consequence of the disorder of knowledge and the absence of an adequate method; a theological approach inspired by the Pauline tradition; and, finally, an ethical-intellectualist dimension that understands truth as an indispensable condition for the reform of human affairs. These four perspectives are attempts to discredit skepticism as a way of life incompatible with Comenius’s pansophic project.
