Pansophism or Pansophia ( Greek παν ... - everything, σοφία - skill, wisdom, omniscience ) is a philosophical and religious movement aimed at achieving universal knowledge, generalizing all knowledge acquired by civilization and bringing this generalized knowledge through school in their native language to all people independently from social, racial, religious affiliation. One of the concepts of omniscience .
The Czech Jan Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670), the founder of scientific pedagogy, stood at the origins of pan -ophism. The principle of pansophism is one of the most important in the activities of Comenius, who stated that everyone should be trained in everything. Comenius advocated something like universal education ( Characteristica Universalis ). Komensky's treatise on Pansophia - Pansophiae prodromus (1639) - was published in London in collaboration with Samuel Hartlieb . This was followed by a second book - Pansophiae diatyposis . Pansophia was defined by Comenius as "a complete understanding of the divine order of things."
In 1659, the Swedish follower of Comenius, Baron Bengt Schütte , discussed in London with Robert Boyle and other members of the Invisible College the creation of the city of wisdom - Sofopolis [1] . Instead of what Schütte proposed, the Royal Society of London was organized in 1660. In 1666, Schütte proposed to the Elector of Brandenburg, instead of the planned university, to create an entire city of scientists in the vicinity of Berlin - the Solomon House.
The English-Russian Dictionary of Psychoanalysts (2013) understands pan-sophism as a claim to possess universal knowledge. [2]