Topic
Lullism
About: Lullism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12 publications have been published within this topic receiving 27 citations. The topic is also known as: llullism.
Papers
10 Apr 2012
TL;DR: In Lullianism, a second mystical ascent progressed from rational knowledge of comparative perfection to the spiritual knowledge of the superlative (optimum) wherein was true knowledge of God, the optimum et maximum as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: notion of the better (melius). A second mystical ascent progressed from rational knowledge of comparative perfection to the spiritual knowledge of the superlative (optimum) wherein was true knowledge of God, the optimum et maximum. In Lull’s account, therefore, sensation and reason were both necessary stages in attaining knowledge of God from the observation of nature. By this method, Lull believed that the highest mysteries of the Christian religion could be attained even by the natural man. The Trinity itself was not only possible to discern from nature, but was demonstrated as logically necessary. The attributes of God were plainly manifest in the natural world so that all monotheists – including in particular the Muslims whom Lull was evangelising – could accede to them and follow them to their logical, Christian, conclusions. Though Ramon Lull’s ars was condemned by the Church for a short period in the late fourteenth century, 102 it established itself as one of the most influential philosophies of the Renaissance, heavily influencing (among others) Raymond Sebond, Nicolas Cusanus, and Giordano Bruno (1548-1600).103 The Ars magna and Ars brevis were reproduced in both text and diagrammatic form frequently throughout the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. 104 By this at-once mystical and natural route, a comprehensive 101 Lohr, 'Metaphysics', p. 540. 102 Lull’s ars was condemned in Avignon in 1376 and in the University of Paris in 1390, before being absolved in 1416. See Badia et al., 'Centre de Documentacio Ramon Llull,' University of Barcelona, 2011, www.centrellull.ub.edu. 103 Yates reports that Bruno thought that ‘since the divine mind is universally present in the world of nature...the process of coming to know the divine mind must be through the reflection of the images of the world of sense within the mens’ (Yates, Art of memory, p. 257). Bruno’s natural theology, however, was symptomatic of the pantheism for which he was executed for the crime of heresy in 1600. 104 Other Catholic philosophers of the sixteenth century heavily indebted to Lull include the Parisian humanists Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples (c. 1455-1536) and Charles de Bouvelles (1479-1553). Francis Yates has dedicated a volume of essays to Lull’s sixteenth-century following (Frances Amelia Yates, Lull & Bruno, Collected essays (London & Boston, MA: Routledge & K. Paul, 1982). Also see Yates, Art of memory, 189ff.). Many editions of Lull’s work and commentaries thereupon were published in sixteenthand seventeenthcentury France and Italy, such as Bernard de Lavinheta, Explanatio compendiosaque applicatio Artis Raymundi Lulli (1523); Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, In Artem brevem Raymundi Lulli (1533); and Pierre Gregoire, Syntaxis Artis mirabilis (1583-87). Lazarus Zetzner’s 1598 edition of Lull’s entire corpus (Ramon Lull, Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem universalem (Strasburg, 1598)) was reprinted in 1609 and 1617. A chair of Lullian philosophy and theology was founded by Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros (1436-1517) at the University of Alcala. For these examples of Renaissance Lullism, I am indebted to Badia et al., 'Centre de Documentacio Ramon Llull.’ A full bibliography of editions of Lull’s printed works in the Renaissance can be found in Elies Rogent, Estanislau Duran and Ramon Alos-Moner, Bibliografia de les impressions Lul-lianes
16 citations
8 Apr 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how the Ars Lulliana, the system of thought derived from the work of the medieval Catalan philosopher and missionary Ramon Llull, and the Ramist method appear to have had much in common, from the assumed universality of their respective methods and the use of graphic visualisation, to the promise of simplification and the similar claims to success.
Abstract: This chapter attempts to outline: how the Ars Lulliana, the system of thought derived from the work of the medieval Catalan philosopher and missionary Ramon Llull, and Ramist method. Ramism and Lullism appear to have had much in common, from the assumed universality of their respective methods and the use of graphic visualisation, to the promise of simplification and the similar claims to success. The chapter discusses the Lullian Art and in what ways it might have been perceived as a comparable endeavour or even a methodological alternative to Ramism. The pattern of initiation which was so persistently highlighted by the Lullist commentators does indeed also point to a tradition that linked Lullism and alchemy. In line with the claims the patrons of sixteenth-century Lullism had so successfully planted, he asked his friend Beeckman to check for him whether there was in fact a secret or key to such ability in the published works of Ramon Llull.
5 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to explain the process of the Tribunal of the Inquisition of Zaragoza against the explanation of the Art of Ramon Llull at the University in 1610.
Abstract: This article tries to explain the process of the Tribunal of the Inquisition of Zaragoza against the explanation of the Art of Ramon Llull at the University in 1610. Master Agustin Nunez Delgadillo taught the Art of Ramon Llull but the Chancellor and the Senate forbade doing it. However, Philip II had protected Lullism and encouraged its explanation in several places, especially in Alcala. In order to better understand the process, it is explained by contextualization of the historical references and by the clarification of the difficult relationship among the King of Spain, the Pope and the different ideological trends and interests of the Roman Catholic Church and the interests of the different Spanish Kingdoms.
4 citations
1 Jan 2010
TL;DR: Fidora, A.Rubio, J. E. Turnhout, and Raimundus Lullus: An Introduction to his Life, Works and Thought as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The text offered here seeks to present the recent work, Fidora, A.–Rubio, J. E. (eds.), Raimundus Lullus: An Introduction to his Life, Works and Thought, CCCM 214, Turnhout: Brepols 2008, within the dual contexts of Lullian historiography and the history of Lullism, and by locating it therein aims to assess the volume’s contribution to and revision of an ongoing enterprise while providing a detailed description of the work’s contents.
3 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the examination received in the Court of the Inquisition of Mexico for the Spanish translation of the Arbor scientiae by Ramon Llull was revealed, which helps to determine more precisely the ideological control and censorship of books of the Court in Mexico, as well as to considerate, through Lullism, the relations between Ecclesiastical power and Royal power on both sides of the Atlantic.
2 citations
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