Liberal Arts - The Trivium

The liberal arts have seven branches of knowledge.

The Trivium consists of:

• Logic, the art of thinking

• Grammar, the art of inventing symbols

• Rhetoric, the art of communicating

The quadrivium consists of:

• Arithmetic, the theory of number

• Music, an application of the theory of number

• Geometry, the theory of space

• Astronomy, application of the theory of space

Art of reading, writing, and reckoning are knowledge to acquire to that knowledge.

A Master of liberal arts is the best preparation to work in professional school (medicine, law, engineering and theology).

The liberal arts differ essentially from utilitarian - useful art (carpenter, masonry, plumbing, salesman ship, printing, editing, banking, law , medicine, or care of soul) and fine art - the art of beauty (architecture, instrumental music, sculpture, painting, literature, the drama, and the dance).

• Utilitarian artist and fine arts starts from the agent and ends in the object, produces commercial value and the artist gets paid. Meaning producing something useful for somebody else.

• Liberal arts starts from the agent and ends in the agents, he get the intellect for himself (self teaching for mind)

From Trivium, rewrite by Saifan Seigi Ragamustari

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