Seven liberal arts
The seven liberal arts (Latin: septem artes liberales), which were distinguished from the practical arts, the so-called artes mechanicae, as the higher-ranking ones, comprised a systematically ordered canon of seven subjects of study. They were divided into the trivium (three-way) of the linguistically and logically-argumentatively oriented subjects, in which Latin was cultivated as the basic language of science, and the more advanced quadrivium (four-way) of the mathematically oriented subjects. Superficially, the seven subjects of study formed the foundation of the education befitting a 'free man' according to later Roman ideas. In the medieval teaching system, they served as preparation for the actual scientific subjects of theology, jurisprudence and medicine.
Literature
- Rudolf Steiner: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die großen Fragen des Daseins, GA 60 (1983) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Das Johannes-Evangelium, GA 103 (1995), Zwölfter Vortrag, Hamburg, 31. Mai 1908 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwickelung, GA 204 (1979) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Wege zu einem neuen Baustil, GA 286 (1982), ISBN 3-7274-2860-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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