Athanasius Kircher, SJ, allegory of the quest for universal knowledge
Keywords:
Athanasius Kircher, renaissance, universal knowledge, polymathyAbstract
In a world like ours, where specialization seems to be the irrevocable norm that must govern research activity, the work of Athanasius Kircher, SJ (1602- 1680) underlines the importance of the quest for the universal. Kircher deserves to be described as «the last of the universal sages». The essay Athanasius (2016) intones, inspired by the German sage, a song to the human desire to learn and the need we have to constantly question the inherited ideas. He proposes a search that does justice to the etymology of the word “skeptic”, a term that does not refer to the unbeliever of everything, but to the one that initiates an incessant search.Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
Downloads
Published
2019-05-07
How to Cite
Blanco Pérez, C. A. (2019). Athanasius Kircher, SJ, allegory of the quest for universal knowledge. Razón Y Fe, 279(1439), 299–309. Retrieved from https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/razonyfe/article/view/11394
Issue
Section
Artículos
License
The authors of articles published in Razón y Fe retain the intellectual property rights over their works and grant the journal their distribution and public communication rights, consenting to their publication under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivates 4.0 Internacional. Authors are encouraged to publish their work on the Internet (for example, on institutional or personal pages, repositories, etc.) respecting the conditions of this license and quoting appropriately the original source.
