Search results
Sister Miriam Joseph Rauh, C.S.C., PhD (1898–1982) was a member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. She received her doctorate from Columbia University and was Professor of English at Saint Mary's College from 1931 to 1960.
Aug 24, 2023 · Miriam Joseph Rauh was a teacher and a member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. She got her PhD from Columbia University and taught English at Saint Mary’s College from 1931 to 1960. She wrote a book called The Trivium, which was an important part of the classes at Saint Mary’s College.
- Vítor Costa
- 2022
- Paul Dry Books
Sister Miriam Joseph rescued that integrated approach to unlocking the power of the mind and presented it for many years to her students at Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana.
Sister Miriam Joseph Rauh, C.S.C., PhD (1898–1982) was a member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. She received her doctorate from Columbia University and was Professor of English at Saint Mary's College from 1931 to 1960.
- (797)
- Paperback
- The Liberal Arts
- The Trivium and The Quadrivium
- Classes of Goods
- Science and Art
- Liberal Arts Education
- The Language Arts and Reality
- Comparison of Materials, Functions, and Norms of The Language Arts
- Footnotes
The liberal arts denote the seven branches of knowledge that initiate the young into a life of learning. The concept is classical, but the term liberal arts and the division of the arts into the trivium and the quadrivium date from the Middle Ages.
The trivium1includes those aspects of the liberal arts that pertain to mind, and the quadrivium, those aspects of the liberal arts that pertain to matter. Logic, grammar, and rhetoric constitute the trivium; and arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy constitute the quadrivium. Logic is the art of thinking; grammar, the art of inventing symbols ...
The three classes of goods—valuable, useful, and pleasurable—illustrate the same type of distinction that exists among the arts. Valuable goods are those which are not only desired for their own sake but which increase the intrinsic worth of their possessor. For instance, knowledge, virtue, and health are valuable goods. Useful goods are those whic...
Each of the liberal arts is both a science and an art in the sense that in the province of each there is something to know (science) and something to do (art). An art may be used successfully before one has a formal knowledge of its precepts. For example, a child of three may use correct grammar even though the child knows nothing of formal grammar...
Education is the highest of arts in the sense that it imposes forms (ideas and ideals) not on matter, as do other arts (for instance carpentry or sculpture), but on mind. These forms are received by the student not passively, but through active cooperation. In true liberal education, as Newman7explained, the essential activity of the student is to ...
The three language arts can be defined as they relate to reality and to each other. Metaphysics or ontology,10the science of being, is concerned with reality, with the thing-as-it-exists. Logic, grammar, and rhetoric have the following relation to reality. Rhetoric is the master art of the trivium,12for it presupposes and makes use of grammar and l...
The language arts guide the speaker, writer, listener, and reader in the correct and effective use of language. Phonetics and spelling, which are allied to the art of grammar, are included here to show their relationship to the other language arts in materials, functions, and norms. Because rhetoric aims for effectiveness rather than correctness, i...
1. Trivium means the juncture of three branches or roads and has the connotation of a “cross-roads” open to all (Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 1, s.v., “the seven liberal arts”). Quadrivium means the juncture of four branches or roads. 2. “Endymion,” John Keats (1795–1821). “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: / Its loveliness increases: it will neve...
Sister Miriam Joseph's book, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, invites the reader into a deeper understanding—one that includes rules, definitions, and...
Sister Miriam Joseph rescued that integrated approach to unlocking the power of the mind and presented it for many years to her students at Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana.
