Aula Aberta: A Formação do Sistema das Artes Liberais | Rafael Falcón

Rafael Falcón

Rafael Falcón

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In this lesson, Professor Rafael Falcón distinguishes the modern notion of liberal education from the classical and medieval tradition and shows how the pedagogical system responsible for producing the most intelligent people in our civilization was formed.

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0:00 Introduction
0:15 Mortimer Adler's concept of liberal education
2:59 Dorothy Sayers
3:46 Sister Miriam Joseph
4:50 The seemingly systematic form of traditional pedagogy
9:42 Why didn't medieval people write manuals?

13:10 The evolution of the system
16:23 The arts of the Trivium and Quadrivium
20:06 The primitive Trivium
24:12 The origin of the Quadrivium
26:43 The Liberal Arts in the Roman Empire
31:35 Christianity and the final synthesis
33:26 Conclusion