Ars Brevis | Ramon Llull

  • Ars Brevis | Ramon Llull
20/05/1308

Ars Brevis | Ramon Llull

The Ars Brevis is a shortened version of the Ars, Ramon Llull’s magnum opus. He wrote it so that students starting to study his Art could grasp Llull’s entire system without logical and theological aspects hindering them. In this circular figure, the subject is transformed into predicate and vice versa. The scholar of the Art seeks the natural conjunction between subject and predicate, its ar- rangement and proportion, to be able to find the average term that will allow him to reach the conclusion.

The figure contains nine principles:
B goodness, difference, God, justice and avarice.
C greatness, concordance, angel, prudence and gluttony.
D eternity or duration, contrariety, heaven, heaven, fortitude and lust. E power, beginning, man, temperance and pride.
F wisdom, middle, imaginative, faith and acedia.
G will, end, sensitive, hope and envy.
H virtue, majority, vegetative, charity and ire.
I truth, equality, patience and lying.
K glory, minority, piety and inconstancy.

Name of piece: Ars Brevis
Author: Ramon Llull
Year: 1308
Credits: Book edited in 1669, Biblioteca de Catalunya