Ciléa Dourado

Original title: Esboço de uma ética universal luliana

Published in Mirabilia 1

Keywords: Be, Ethic, Ramon Llull, Trinity., Virtue.

For Lúlio man is the “ humanizing animal” (the one that humanize his context), the only one that while participating in the matter and form of the universe he builds himself. The psychic virtue that endows the rational soul of memory, understanding and will is the space where the conscience and the first cause of the human self-determination are forged. The basis of the Lullian universal and transcendental ethics is that all men of any race or belief possess the trinitary virtue which supports them on being, as well as all of them are able to think, to understand and to love. This doesn’t mean a rupture with the divine, because it is God who keeps each creature on being, consequently He is inner its actions. It means a new vision of God as the one that enables the human essence and contributes updating human perfection. Since I have the freedom to accomplish it that improves me on being, I can use this freedom in a wrong way and go against being. The bad use of freedom depreciates willing, that doesn’t follow understanding, allowong vice to fix. The vicious abominates his being and ignores he is in the Evil, because without the illumination of virtue, the memory doesn’t meditate, understanding doesn’t understand and willing.