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Gewalt sei ferne den Dingen! Contemporary Perspectives on the Works of John Amos Comenius
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SYSNO ASEP 0458536 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title John Amos Comenius' Use of Authoritates in Theory and Practice Author(s) Balík, Vojtěch (FLU-F) SAI, RID, ORCID Source Title Gewalt sei ferne den Dingen! Contemporary Perspectives on the Works of John Amos Comenius. - Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2016 / Goris W. ; Meyer M. A. ; Urbánek V. - ISBN 978-3-658-08260-4 Pages s. 323-333 Number of pages 11 s. Number of copy 500 Number of pages 492 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country DE - Germany Keywords John Amos Comenius ; quotations ; references to other authors Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion R&D Projects GA13-08740S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-08261-1_21 Annotation Comenius' writings contain a large number of passages taken from other authors. But in his own theory he is strongly against the excessive use of so-called authoritates ('authorities') when being used for stylistic purposes only. Such immoderate use reduces the authorities to just opiniones, even praeconceptus, praejudicia. Comenius allows the use of authorities only as testimonia to confirm and support the intentions of authors' own thoughts. In his own practice, he relies on the power of authorities in accordance with the hierarchy of spiritual authority recognized in his time, when on the top is the Holy Scripture, followed by the Church Fathers as the sole bearers of its message; other authors come only in the next row, even if they are his favorite authors.
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