"Arbor scientiae": Immanenz und Transzendenz im Denken Llulls

Abstract

This paper aims to show that Llull is both a classical and a modern author and that, therefore, his thinking can serve us to rescue modernity from within, taking advantage of its legitimate efficacy. Llullian Art becomes a Logos, the set of all logics, and therefore considers everything from the perspective of the act of being, and not of the cognitive operation. It is on its way to complete unification and cognitive integration. All this in order to achieve a complete unification and integration of knowledge. It supports the highest function of intelligence: finding. But it is also demonstrative, because, when examining also the "first intentions", the relations that are discovered between things are real and necessary. Finally, it must be said that, since, according to Llull, everything is in action, including thinking, Llullian metaphysics, through Art, makes it possible to relate everything to everything –mainly to personal beings, the first of whom is God– from a single point of view. With Llull we focus on the optic of real activities and explain everything from transcendent realities; because of this, there is no need to oppose what is transcendent and what is immanent. When, with the help of Art, we reach the transcendent of everything, we do not need to go beyond ourselves, for the transcendent truth is already in us.