Sárospataki Füzetek 14. (2010)
2010 / 2. szám - TANULMÁNYOK - Kaiser, Christopher Barina: "Isten bölcsességének jelei" Comenius Panorthosia c. művében: egy bibliai téma a modern tudomány alapjaiban
Christopher kaiser So Comenius dream of a “New Universal Philosophy” lived on in the work of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein, and it continues to live on in Einstein’s successors who now working on ideas like superstrings and loop quantum theory that may finally unify all of the fundamental forces and particles in one theory in a way that is still comprehensible to people with the necessary training. Conclusion: Recovering the Root of Scientific Endeavor This brief review has shown that faith in the coordinated rationality of the cosmos and the human mind was a heritage of the Judeo-Christian-Pla tonic tradition that was passed on particularly in association with the citation of Wisdom 11:20, “You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.” Johannes Amos Comenius was an important trident of this science-fostering belief. Comenius was truly a “Janus-faced” figure. He looked back to the ancient Wisdom tradition of Scripture and he pointed the way forward to the development of modern science. He was also conversant with leading natural philosophers of his own time, thinkers like René Descartes and Johannes Kepler, who were applying these biblically based ideas to their own scientific endeavors. Today we are frighteningly dependent on the fruits of science and technology. Even the small villages like Sárospatak and those in Moravia where Comenius was born are being swept up in the development of a global technological society—all based on the latest scientific knowledge. No doubt, Comenius would be optimistic about what is happening today. He would see the fulfillment of his pansophic dream in the progress of modern science and the globalization that brings nations in closer contact. But he would also advise us to recover the pansophic root of scientific endeavor in the “marks of God’s Wisdom” in order that its true meaning might be better appreciated and that science-based societies would serve the common good rather than their own national interests. 30 Sárospataki Füzetek
