| The Art and Logic of Ramon Llull: A User's Guide Contributor(s): Bonner (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004163255 ISBN-13: 9789004163256 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $174.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: This book attempts to explain the functioning of the combinatorial, semi-mechanical demonstrative techniques of Ramon Llull's 'Art', how it began as an apologetic instrument, how it developed through two main stages, and how it ended trying to reformulate key aspects of medieval Aristotelian logic. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 189.4 |
| LCCN: 2007045315 |
| Series: Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters (Brill) |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.6" W x 9.66" (1.79 lbs) 364 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ramon Llull (ca. 1232-1316), mystic, missionary, philosopher, lay theologian, and one of the founding fathers of Catalan literature, was chiefly known in his own time and in subsequent generations as the inventor of a combinatorial, semi-mechanical method of demonstration, which he called his 'Art' and which he had developed to free interreligious debate from its fruitless textual base. Most of the extensive modern literature has been dedicated to mapping the foundations of Llull's system, with little attempt to see how he used and combined these foundations to produce actual demonstrations. This book, in a series of explications de textes, tries to explain what kind of demonstrative systems he developed during the two main stages of the 'Art', how they finally evolved into an adaptation of key aspects of medieval Aristotelian logic, and why the 'Art' was central to all Llull's endeavors. |