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A Classical Education
If you have a university education (or know someone who has),
you should be at least slightly familiar with the following authorities and
course of study, which has been in place since medieval times.
Courses in beer and mayhem are supplementary.
In the Faculty of the Arts
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The principal authority is always Aristotle on...
- Logical or Rational Philosophy:
Organon, Categories, On Interpretation, Analytics, etc.
Moral Philosophy:
Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics
Natural Philosophy, or Natural History:
Physical Discourse, On the Heavens, On the Soul, On Parts of Animals,
Meteorologics,, etc.
The Seven Liberal Arts
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Grammar: Priscian, Donatus, Villedieu,
Cassiodorus, and some pagan and early Christian writers.
- Rhetoric: Quintillian, Cicero, Eberhard de Bethune
- Logic: Porphyry, Gilbert de la Poré, Hispanus
- Arithmetic: John of Holywood, John of Pisa
- Geometry: Euclid, Boëthius
- Music: Boëthius, Jehan de Muris of Paris (Ars novae musicae, 1319), Plato's Timaeus, Aristoxenos
- Astronomy:Gerard de Cremona
In the Faculty of Law
The principal Latin authorities are:
- In civil law
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Corpus Juris Civilis, the Code, the Pandects (a digest), the
Institutes, the Novellae
- In canon (church) law
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Gratian, Bartholomew, Pope Gregory IX, Pope Boniface VIII,
Constitutiones Clementiae
In the Faculty of Theology
The Bible, Peter Lombard, Church Fathers, and great doctors of the
church such as Origen, Augustine, and Aquinas
In the Faculty of Medicine
Hippocrates, Galen, Arabic and Jewish medical texts, Theodore of
Lucca, Lanfranci, Chauliac
Some specialized authorities
Isidore of Seville: Etymologiae (On Language) and Sententiae
(Maxims)
Rabanus Maurus, On the Universe and On the Instruction of the Clergy
(Emperor) Frederick II, The Falcon Book
Gordanus Rufus, On Horse Healing
 What Every Schoolboy Knows
Classical References
Proverbs & Wise Sayings
Children & Childhood
28 March 2008 mps
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