Ramon Llull and the Question of the Knowledge of God in the Parisian Condemnation of 1277

• Autores: Antoni Bordoy Fernández
• Localización: Knowledge, contemplation and Lullism: contributions to the Lullian session at the SIEPM congress - Freising, August 20-25, 2012 / coord. por José Higuera Rubio, 2015, ISBN 978-2-503-54853-1, págs. 65-87
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I attempt to define the epistemological background of the Declaratio Raimundi in order to analyse Ramon Llull’s interpretation of the human possibility of knowing God. The Declaratio is a commentary on the 1277 condemnation by Tempier. Many studies have emphasised some aspects concerning the knowledge of God in the syllabus articles. A general tendency reflects two opposed doctrinal positions : firstly, there is a group of articles, 211 and 36, which refer to an “ontological” position, that is, to the idea that the human intellect can know God because it is capable of producing an essential contact with the First Cause ; secondly, another group of articles (215-216) corresponds to the opposite position, that it is impossible to know anything about God because the divine and the human are separated spheres. Llull’s defense of the condemnation is based on the idea that it is possible to reconcile faith and reason, although it is necessary to follow the ontological hierarchy of reality, that is, to subsume philosophy in theology.