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Comenius

In Our Time: Philosophy

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How Did Comenius See the Crisis Around Him?

Camenius saw the times in which he lived as a three intersecting crises kind of colliding simultaneously with one another. One these was the religious crisis, going back to luther and calvin protestant theologians,. The other two were military conflicts across northern europe - 16 18 and 30 years war itself. And that's why he eventually germinated this notion of universal reformation. He envisaged not only a future state in which some kind of peace and enlightenment will be established across all domains, but also means to get us there.

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