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The Trivium consisted of:It appears these postmodern scholars are merely trivial.
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
The Quadrivium consisted of:
Arithmetic -- Number in itself
Geometry -- Number in space
Music, Harmonics, or Tuning Theory -- Number in time
Astronomy or Cosmology -- Number in space and time
This thread gave vent to memories of an article I wrote in 1971 for_______________________________________________
an in
house (Catholic college) publication, contrasting a narrow
education in the
"humanities" with a science based education (anti technology
sentiment was
rampant at this time):
" . . . The polarization is already far advanced. While the
theologians
continue to write about each other, the scientists - heeding St.
Paul's
injunction - explore the mind of God 'through the things he has made'.
While the historians continue to indulge their primitive obsession
with
politics and wars, the student of science studies what is eminently
human
history - the evolution of scientific thought. While
philosophers . . . "
( On and on, provoking from the pews a grand AMEN! )
Bob Sciamanda