Tim Bouma on Nostr: ‘Liberal’ has its roots not as we might expect in the Latin liber, ...
‘Liberal’ has its roots not as we might expect in the Latin liber, ‘free’–that is, being the topics suitable for the training of a free man in the ancient world–but in liber, ‘book’: they were subjects to be learnt by reading. Cicero listed them as geometry, literature, poetry, natural science, ethics and politics.
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