El Arte luliano y la división aristotélica de las ciencias

Aristotle’s demarcation of intellectuals habits, science and art, opposes the demonstrative knowledge based on necessary principles and the artistic production. Despite this opposition, Ramon Llull proposes the «Demonstrative Art». That Art comes from the medieval flexibility of the Aristotelian demarcation in which scientia-ars are related to varied disciplines: demonstrative, productive, or practical. This concept comes about through the circulation in the Introductions to Philosophy of the idea that the term scientia can be attributed to any discipline. Three different aspects justify that fact: the Isidorian definition of philosophy as «art of arts» (ars artium); the Boethian interpretation of the term scientia in speculative, productive or active senses; and the Farabian indication of the first philosophy as the discipline that contains the substantialia et accidentalia principles. The flexibility of the medieval scientia-ars relations is an important factor in understanding the Lullian project that goes beyond the alleged divergence between scientific demonstration -introduced in the Analytica posteriora- and the argumentative invention in the Topica.