Education

Sciences

• Speculative (theōrēticós) – Study of…
  • Theology (theología) – Immaterials
  • Physics (physiología) – Materials
  • Mathematics (mathēmaticós) – Immaterials in materials
• Pratical (practicḗ) – Virtue of…
  • Ethics (ēthicḗ) – Individuals
  • Economy (œconomía) – Households
  • Politics (politicá) – Nations

Contemporarily, these further species of physics are commonly referred to:

• Biology – Life
  • Anthropology – Man
  • Zoology – Animals
  • Botany – Plants
• Geology – Minerals

Other sorts—metaphysics, epistemology, logic, &c.—are generic principles of all dialectics.

Curricula

• Trivium
  • Grammar
  • Dialectic
  • Rhetoric
• Quadrivium
  • Arithmetic
  • Geometry
  • Astronomy
  • Music

These were called by the Romans the liberal arts, because every free citizen was expected to know them, at least the trivium.

University

The universty—like modern law & most civil institutions—originate from Constantinople, where it was called the pandidacterium. It had chairs for:

• Law
• Philosophy
• Medicine
• Arithmetic
• Geometry
• Astronomy
• Music
• Rhetoric

The pandidacterium was established in opposition to & supplantion of the gentile academy. Private tutors were previously & still after widely used.

References

• John of Damascus, St. “Philosophical Chapters” in: The Fount of Knowledge.