Liberal studies
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
liberal studies · disciplines · letters · liberal arts · studia liberalia · the good arts · the precepts of wisdom · wisdom
in the texts
Consolation to Helvia
The pursuit of philosophical and literary learning, presented as the ultimate cure for grief, contrasted with mere distraction.
And so I lead you to that refuge to which all who flee from Fortune must betake themselves—to liberal studies.
if they enter your mind in good faith, never again will grief enter, never anxiety, never the superfluous vexation of fruitless distress.
Letters to Lucilius
The traditional course of education in grammar, rhetoric, music, geometry, and astronomy
Some have judged that this should be asked about the liberal studies, whether they make a man good;
'Since you say,' he says, 'that one does not come to virtue without the liberal studies, how do you deny that they contribute nothing to virtue?
Indeed it may even be said that one can come to wisdom without the liberal studies;