Liberal arts and mixing methods: Good reasons to educate citizens and poor pilgrims as free men; [Las artes liberales y el mixing methods: Buenas razones para formar ciudadanos y pobres peregrinos como hombres libres]
Andrés-Gallego J.
2019
Arbor
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10.3989/arbor.2019.794n4001
Mixing methods is a well-known innovative methodologic proposal for research in the second half of the 20th century social sciences. Reading literature about it, I observed the aspect that justifies this paper: Authors of theoretical contributions on mixing methods recognized that this was known to be a practice already in use many centuries ago. Some of them even have re-examined the whole history of the scientific method to search precedents. They are however individual and theoretical precedents. I add in this paper the practical projection of these and other methodological theories on people’s training from Greek classical times. My hypothesis is that liberal arts was the basic syllabus in Western-and westernized-education for more than a millennium in such a way that results of their training precisely involved to mixing methods. In return, to understand the liberal arts in the light of mixing methods shows new aspects of their historical interest. I study the theoretical basis of this syllabus from Cicero to Alcuin. More important for future research, I conclude that Alcuin’s thesis about the correspondence between the gifts of the Holy Spiritu and the seven liberal arts can be extended to the Aristotelian dianoethics habits and to Dilthey’s 20th-century sciences of mind. © 2019 CSIC.
Habits; Liberal arts; Martianus Capella; Mixing methods; Santiago de Compostela; Sciences of mind
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