{"product_id":"the-wisdom-of-ramon-llull-mysticism-method-and-the-art-of-finding-truth-9798195029722","title":"The Wisdom of Ramon Llull: Mysticism, Method, and the Art of Finding Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sapientia Mundi Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christianity - Saints \u0026amp; Sainthood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thirteenth-century courtier abandoned everything to build a machine for discovering truth - and changed the history of Western thought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Ramon Llull: Mysticism, Method, and the Art of Finding Truth\u003c\/i\u003e tells the extraordinary story of one of the medieval world's most original and restless minds. Born on the island of Majorca shortly after its conquest by Christian forces, Ramon Llull spent his youth as a courtier and troubadour poet before a series of visions transformed him into a philosopher, missionary, and inventor of a combinatorial system of reasoning that anticipated developments in formal logic and computer science by centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the intellectual traditions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism that converged in medieval Majorca, Llull constructed a method he called the Art - a system of revolving wheels, symbolic alphabets, and geometric figures designed to generate truths about any subject from a set of fundamental principles. He spent four decades promoting this system across Europe and North Africa, composing nearly three hundred works in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic, founding a missionary language school, petitioning popes and kings, and twice risking his life in Muslim North Africa to test his method of rational persuasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Ramon Llull: Mysticism, Method, and the Art of Finding Truth\u003c\/i\u003e examines every dimension of this remarkable career: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe multicultural world of medieval Majorca and its influence on Llull's vision of interfaith dialogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe structure and operation of the Art, from its divine dignities to its revolving combinatorial figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLlull's major literary works, including the pioneering novel \u003ci\u003eBlanquerna\u003c\/i\u003e and the Sufi-influenced \u003ci\u003eLlibre d'amic e amat\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis dangerous missionary journeys to Tunis and Bougie and his tireless campaigns at the papal court\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe posthumous controversy over Llull's orthodoxy and the centuries-long fight for his vindication\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe transmission of Lullian ideas through Giordano Bruno and Gottfried Leibniz to modern logic and computation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for readers who seek intellectual substance without academic jargon, this volume offers a vivid and historically grounded portrait of a thinker whose ambition was matched only by his courage. Llull believed that reason and love were not opposed forces but complementary paths to the same truth - and he spent his life proving it, at whatever cost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883006902423,"sku":"9798195029722","price":1139.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195029722.webp?v=1781098754","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wisdom-of-ramon-llull-mysticism-method-and-the-art-of-finding-truth-9798195029722","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}