Artes liberales

Septem artes liberales, pictura in Horto deliciarum Herradi von Landberg saeculi duodecimi producta.

Artes liberales sunt artes quae dignae idoneaeque putantur, ut homines liberi beata mentis vita versentur, adversus eas inliberales artes, quae sunt ad fines serviles, occupationales,^? aut oeconomicas.

Cicero antiquitate putabat artes liberales geometriam, musicam, studium litterarum poëtarumque complecti, cum scientiis naturalibus, ethica, et civilitate.

Longe autem ab antiquitate usque ad aetatem medievalem tandem, artes liberales dicuntur septem quae curricula universitaria constituebant. Hae artes in partes duas divisae sunt, trivium et quadrivium appellatas:

• Trivium: grammatica, rhetorica, dialectica
• Quadrivium: arithmetica, geometria, musica, astronomia

Quadrivii disciplinae appellatae sunt post disciplinas in quas olim Pythagoriani fautores omnem mathematicam diviserunt:

• Arithmetica: numerus purus
• Geometria: numerus in spatio
• Musica: numerus in tempore
• Astronomia: numerus in spatio temporeque

Bibliographia

• Blaich, Charles, Anne Bost, Ed Chan, et Richard Lynch. "Defining Liberal Arts Education." Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, 2004.
• Blanshard, Brand. 1973. The Uses of a Liberal Education: And Other Talks to Students. Open Court. ISBN 0-8126-9429-5.
• Friedlander, Jack. 1982. Measuring the Benefits of Liberal Arts Education in Washington's Community Colleges. Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Community Colleges. ED 217 918.
• Joseph, Sister Miriam. 2002. The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric. Paul Dry Books Inc.
• Pfnister, Allen O. 1984. "The Role of the Liberal Arts College." The Journal of Higher Education 55 (2, March/April: 145–170.
• Reeves, Floyd W. 1930. "The Liberal-Arts College." The Journal of Higher Education 1(7): 373–380.
• Seidel, George. 1968. "Saving the Small College." The Journal of Higher Education 39(6): 339–342.
• Winterer, Caroline. 2002. The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Wriston, Henry M. 1937. The Nature of a Liberal College. Lawrence University Press.
• Kitao, T. Kaori, et William R. Kenan, Jr. 1999. "The Usefulness Of Uselessness," keynote address, The 1999 Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth's Odyssey at Swarthmore College, 27 March.

Nexus Externus

• Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiarum libri XX, liber 1: De grammatica, caput 2: De septem liberalibus disciplinis, apud Bibliothecam Augustanam

Notae

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