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The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph

The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric Sister Miriam Joseph ebook
Publisher: Dry, Paul Books, Incorporated
Page: 292
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780967967509

The sine qua non of education is mastery of the liberal arts, and particularly of the Trivium. The trivium is defined by Sister Miriam Joseph, the author of The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric as follows: (Thanks again, Wikipedia. It's important to note that the term “Liberal Arts” isn't interpreted consistently around the world. At the time the seven liberal arts were considered to be branches of philosophy. Together with the so-called Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric), they formed the two parts of the seven liberal arts (septem artes liberales). 30m Asking substantial questions and using a method to find valid answers consistently vs. Classical education starts with the trivium of liberal arts, including grammar, logic, and rhetoric. By themselves, however, those disciplines will never constitute an education. 1530s, “course of instruction,” from Modern Latin encyclopaedia (c.1500), literally “training in a circle,” i.e. The “circle” of arts and sciences, the essentials of a liberal education; from enkyklios “circular,” and paideia “education”. In short, we should respect the old wisdom of the trivium. During the Middle Ages seven subjects were considered to make up the liberal arts—the trivium, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric; and the quadrivium, consisting of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.