Alphabetum Mundi. El Ars magna de Ramon Llull como alternativa al método escolástico

Abstract

Although since the first decades of the XIII century the scholastic method, materialized in the structure of its quaestiones, had already established itself as the most adequate procedure for research and teaching; neither older procedures where completely abandoned nor new ones sought. It is in reference to the latter that we seek to develop some of the main elements of Ars Luliana, paying special attention to how and under what aspects it was conceived by its author as an alternative research procedure. In this sense, we focus on the fact that while the scholastic method limited its display to the abstract plane –thus intrinsically weakening its relationship to the world– the Lulian Art, being a tool of logical, ontological and metaphysical nature, was capable of including it by imposing the identity of the modi intelligent et essendi under the aegis of its new modus significandi.