History of the Liberal Arts
Posted by admin on 17th January and posted in Education Info
At first that was developed is the dialectic. Dialectics recorded first popularized by Zeno of Elea (5th century BC) by showing the paradoxes in his interlocutor. Socrates and Plato then increasingly memantapkannya in their dialogues. Conclusions drawn by way of a logical and systematic thinking of the premises. The rules of inferences drawn. Growing rhetoric brought by the Sophists, who led by Gorgias of Sicily. Rhetoric is the ability bersilat own tongue, which is actually more of an art than a discipline. Socrates did not like it, then directed rhetoric to defend the good stuff.
Aristotle then confirm in an article entitled “Rhetoric”. The latter develops is grammatical, since the great Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle did not give too much attention to grammar. They are more concerned with bigger things that are said to have a natural relationship and regular. That relationship can be described as an analogy (a definite relationship between the words) and anomalies (the uncertain relationship between words). The Stoics and then expand the thinking of Plato and Aristotle in this field. These writings that will be compiled by Dionysius of Alexandria Trax in a tract titled Grammatik? Tekhn?. Alexandria school itself is more interested in literature rather than philosophy, who understands the grammar of a noble science to understand the beauty of literature. Be Alexandria as the first grammar school.
All the days of Greek heritage is further developed in Rome through the hands of a cold such as Cicero and Quintilian. New in the 6th century Cassiodorus Institutiones develop along with Boethius divinarum et humanarum litterarum, which inside contained the seven liberal arts branch, which later will be used as the basis of education for the monks in the Middle Ages. As we know, education baton was transferred into the hands of the monks at this time. Education is directly under the cathedral, as can be seen in the reign of the Carolingian kings in about the 8th century ordered every cathedral and monastery to establish schools, the precursor to the universities in Europe many centuries later. The collapse of the Carolingian dynasty in the 10th century to make the church monopolized the educational system. Although knowledge is not developed much in this era, they were diligently copied all the ancient texts that will be very useful centuries later in the Renaisannce. The church is not a good developer of science, but they are good keepers. Without them the legacy of ancient Greek and Roman era will not come down to us today.
