A Lullist Contribution to the Formalist Literature of the Renaissance: Jaume Janer’s Tractatulus de distinctionibus omnium rerum (1491)
(2022) Ramon Llull y los lulistas (siglos XIV-XX) — ISBN: [978-84-19199-36-2], p. 221-240, published
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- The synthesis of Lullism and Scotism brought about by Pere Daguí and Jaume Janer’s interest in Formalist distinction theory is quite remarkable. For these authors, the elaborate Formalist system of distinctions, first outlined by the early Scotist Petrus Thomae, is an attractive doctrinal complement to their own Lullist thought. It provides them with a framework both for discussing beings of reason and for presenting key elements of their ontology. In abbreviated form, Janer’s Tractatulus contains many essential features of his and his teacher’s doctrinal synthesis. It exhibits how tenets from the Scotist tradition have been accommodated to Lullism, to some extent though at the cost of both conceptual and argumentative clarity. This lack of clarity is somewhat ironic given the emphasis both Daguí and Janer put on what they call «clarity of distinctions». Janer is generally dependent on Daguí, whose Tractatus formalitatum brevis he had redacted before writing his own short piece. With their writings on distinction theory, both of these eclectic Lullists inscribe themselves into the Formalist tradition that, in their time, seems to have possessed a much broader appeal than previous philosophical historiography has recognized.
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Andersen, C. (2022). A Lullist Contribution to the Formalist Literature of the Renaissance: Jaume Janer’s Tractatulus de distinctionibus omnium rerum (1491). In Rafael Ramis Barceló (ed.) (ed.), Ramon Llull y los lulistas (siglos XIV-XX) (p. p. 221-240). Editorial Sindéresis. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/275368