Tag: Trivium

Leisure and the Liberal Arts

A man at leisure is happy to be human. He realizes that he isn’t bound to instinct and survival like an animal, but that his gifts of reason and language set him apart as something more.

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The Trivium: The Architecture of Language

The three arts of the Trivium are Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. Grammar covers the basics of language: the alphabet, vocabulary, syntax, and so forth. Logic has to do with reason and argumentation. Rhetoric is most simply defined as the art of persuasion.

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