{"id":102,"date":"2012-02-16T16:44:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T22:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=102"},"modified":"2012-02-16T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T22:50:26","slug":"all-the-liberal-arts-flow-from-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/02\/16\/all-the-liberal-arts-flow-from-history\/","title":{"rendered":"All the liberal arts flow from history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I do not know if our world would suffer less harm without the sun, its soul as it were, than without history, the principle of all civil activities.\u00a0 Our forebears have often insisted unanimously that the Muses were born from memory.\u00a0 Hence, lest I am mistaken, it is shown that every kind of art flows from history&#8230;&#8221; Philip Melanchthon, &#8220;On Improving the Studies of Youth,&#8221; ed., Carter Lindberg, <em>The European Reformations: Sourcebook<\/em> (Oxford 2000), p.\u00a051<\/p>\n<p>Philip Melanchthon began his career as a Greek professor at Wittenberg in 1518.\u00a0 Trained as a humanist, Philip loved the Greek and Roman classics.\u00a0 He received the title, &#8220;teacher of Germany,&#8221; for his contributions to education during the sixteenth century.\u00a0 Although he never was ordained, Philip completed\u00a0some of the most significant theological writings of the Reformation.\u00a0 In this quote from Melanchthon&#8217;s inaugural lecture at Wittenberg he proclaimed the great significance of the study of history in relation to all the liberal arts.\u00a0 Additionally, February 16 was his birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I do not know if our world would suffer less harm without the sun, its soul as it were, than without history, the principle of all civil activities.\u00a0 Our forebears have often insisted unanimously that the Muses were born from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/02\/16\/all-the-liberal-arts-flow-from-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-memory","category-philip-melanchthon","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}