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Education in Antiquity Pt. 2: A conversation with Dr. Jason Rheins

Philosophy of Education

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Is the Quadrivium a Preparation for Philosophy?

M, i think the quadrivium and vetrivium have to be kind of understood as, in some ways, a full kind of education that would preepare you to then study philosophy. I don't know the extent to which they thought of people who were getting this education in late antiquity, they thought of that level of mathematics as use knowledge? It's just something thenta, i think it was thought of as this mental perfection and mental preparation for higher things. M, we've been going for a while, and i'm very interested in this, so i'm just keep asking jason questions. If anybody has anything that they want to ask about or mention, you

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