About the ‘artificial habits’ in the lullian anthropology and the men spiritual upbeat
José G. Higuera Rubio
Original title: Acerca de los “hábitos artificiales” en la antropología luliana y el ascenso espiritual del hombre
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Keywords: Lullian Art, habitus artificialis, liberal arts, mechanics arts, medieval anthropology, medieval universities, students guides.
The concept of “habitus artificialis” in lullian anthropology involves the knowledge of the divines virtues -the nature’s secrets-, and it represents the spiritual way of human being. Similarly, some documents of medieval universities contain the natural knowledge and the transcendence of prime cause. Therefore the lullian though and the Student’s guides are the model of spiritual finality in the intellectual practice –liberal arts and Lullian Art- and that practice is defined like “habitus artificialis”.
The Sapientia Christiana and the Analogy of the Liberal Arts in a Sermon of Saint Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419)
Gustavo Cambraia FRANCO, Ricardo da COSTA
Original title: A sapientia christiana e a analogia das artes liberais em um Sermão de São Vicente Ferrer (1350-1419)
Published in
Keywords: Analogical Thinking, Medieval Science, Medieval Sermon, Saint Vincent Ferrer, liberal arts.
This article contains an exposition and an analysis on the theme of the Liberal Arts in a sermon of Saint Vincent Ferrer, renowned Dominican Valencian preacher during the passage between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We intend to show that the Liberal Arts are addressed by the sermonist within the traditional theoretical scope of classification of sciences in the medieval period, as branches of knowledge for the service of the higher science, Theology, to avail the scholastic dictum philosophia ancilla theologiae. In his exposition, the author follows the medieval didactic principles of analogical thinking, the figurative hermeneutics and the allegorical exegesis of the Bible, by which he ensnares the meanings and properties of each science or Liberal Art, namely Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric, the Trivium sciences, and Music, Arithmetic, Geometry and Astrology, Quadrivium sciences, in a web of metaphorical and analogical relations aimed, at the end, to confer spiritual, religious and moral meaning and utility to each of them, as well as subordinate them to the royal domain of the sapientia christiana.
