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A New Trivium and Quadrivium

Polytechnic University

Today’s conflicts between the views that the humanities hold of science and engineering and the views science and engineering hold of the humanities weaken the very core of our culture. Their cause is lack of integration in today’s education among subjects that hark back to the medieval trivium and quadrivium. A new trivium is needed to provide every educated person with a basic understanding of the endeavors and instruments that help us address our world and shape a new morality—the humanities, in the noblest sense of the word, to civilize, science to understand nature, and engineering, broadly defined, to encompass the kindred activities that modify nature. Integration of these endeavors is urgent. It involves, in turn, an intimate interaction (the "biosoma") of biological organisms, society, and machines—a new quadrivium. No domain can any longer be considered and learned in isolation.

Key Words: humanities • science • engineering • education • trivium • quadrivium • integration • biosoma

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 23, No. 2, 106-113 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0270467603251296


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