Resumen de Ramon Llull, René Descartes: from Analytics to Heuristics
Alberto Pavanato, Alessandro Tessari
Sanchez de Lizarazo’s edition of Generalis et admirabilis methodus artis lullianae (1613), twenty-four years before the publication of Descartes’ Discours de la méthode, was an intellectual fact that gave visibility to Llull’s Art in the Early Modern period. The combinatory of simple principles as the basic structure of wisdom, and the concentric wheels system, taken from Bruno, were not understood by Descartes. The modern ars combinatoria was more than mnemotechnics : it was a vision of new heuristic signification. The meaning of this fact can be found in the words of Llull, who said that the Art was received through divine illumination, and that that revelation pushed him to write unum librum meliorem de mundo. What kind of book is it ? It might answer all questions : subiectum huius artis est respondere de omnibus quaestionibus. The Lullism of the sixteenth century supported that position and showed the possibility of thinking about a logical unity of knowledge based on the Lullian Art.
