"Le bon homme Comenius": the personal and intellectual links between Comenius and Leibniz

In this article, I first reconsider the personal links between Comenius and Leibniz, searching for how Comenian texts and ideas may have reached Leibniz. For that reason, I outline a constellation of thinkers within Central European Protestantism, since a vast majority of the important intellectuals...

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Published inIntellectual history review Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 677 - 703
Main Author Pavlas, Petr
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 01.10.2024
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
combinatorics
Comenius
Hesenthaler
Jungius
Leibniz
Raue
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Summary:In this article, I first reconsider the personal links between Comenius and Leibniz, searching for how Comenian texts and ideas may have reached Leibniz. For that reason, I outline a constellation of thinkers within Central European Protestantism, since a vast majority of the important intellectuals with some noteworthy link both to Comenius and Leibniz were based there. Second, I investigate more closely one particular intellectual link between Comenius and Leibniz, namely their common combinatorial standpoint, because the striking parallels, connections and similarities between Comenius's and Leibniz's ideas on combinatorics, universal language and relational metaphysics have been largely overlooked thus far.
ISSN:1749-6977
1749-6985
DOI:10.1080/17496977.2023.2272110