Contents // Foreword...9 // 1. Introduction...11 // 2. Comenius’s work in view of his conception of man...15 // 2.1 Characterisation and periodisation of Comenius’s work...15 // 2.2 De rerum humanarum emendatione consultatio catholica // and other works from the panorthotic period...18 // 2.3 Works from the pre-pansophic and pansophic periods...25 // 3. De rerum humanarum emendatione consultatio catholica ...27 // 3.1 Europae lumina, salvete, and Panegersia...27 // 3.2 Panaugia...36 // 3.3 Pansophia...39 // 3.3.1 Mundus possibilis...39 // 3.3.2 Mundus idealis...42 // 3.3.3 Mundus angelicus...43 // 3.3.4 Mundus materialis...44 // 3.3.5 Mundus artificialis...65 // 3.3.6 Mundus moralis...73 // 3.3.7 Mundus spiritualis...78 // 3.3.8 Mundus aeternus...83 // 3.4 Pampaedia...87 // 3.5 Panglottia, Panorthosia, and Pannuthesia...93 // 4. Comenius’s conception of man in the // Consultatio as a system?...105 // 4.1 Terminological inconsistencies...105 // 4.2 ’Ihe ontological primacy of reason, or will? Paunagia // versus the rest of the Consultatio...110 // 4.3 Ihe ontological primacy of free will, or // the immortal human mind?...116 // 4.4 Ihe question of human nature...120 // 5. The conception of man in selected works // of the panorthotic period...127 // 5.1 ’Ihe transition between the pansophic and // panorthotic periods...127 // 5.1.1 Pansophiae praeludium...127 // 5.1.2 Conatuum pansophicorum dilucidatio...129 // 5.1.3 Pansophiae diatyposis...131 // 5.2 Texts from the panorthotic
period...134 // 5.2.1 Via lucis...134 // 5.2.2 Angelus pacis...139 // 5.2.3 Unum necessarium...141 // 5.2.4 Janua rerum reserata...146 // 5.2.5 Clamores Eliae...149 // 6. The conception of man in the works of the // preparatory and pansophic periods...159 // 6.1 Theatrum universitatis rerum...159 // 6.2 Amphitheatrum universitatis rerum...162 // 6.3 Letters to Heavens...163 // 6.4 The Mournful...163 // 6.5 Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart...165 // 167 // 6.6 Centrum securitatis and Renuntiatio mundi // 6.7 Didactics...170 // 6.8 Prima philosophia...173 // 6.9 Physicae synopsis...174 // 7. The conception of man in the works of // John Amos Comenius...179 // 8. Possible sources of Comenius’s conception...185 // 9. Comenius’s anthropology in scholarly literature...195 // 10. Summary...201 // Abbreviations and reference list...205 // Abbreviations...205 // Internet sources...205 // Sources...206 // Secondary sources...209 // Index of Names // 231