Brian Kemple in the Synechist blog at Continuum Philosophical Insight.
"There is a fruitful distinction suggested by the phrase 'Liberal Education', as comprising those subjects not in themselves arts—as philosophy or literature, for instance—but which nevertheless contribute to the freedom of the mind. That is, though we are here enveloped in a study of the liberal arts, our ultimate goal is for a liberal education—towards which the arts are innately ordered."
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