{"id":470,"date":"2013-02-20T22:35:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T04:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=470"},"modified":"2013-07-29T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T01:50:02","slug":"studies-of-free-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/02\/20\/studies-of-free-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies of Free Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We call those studies liberal, then, which are worthy of a free [<em>liber<\/em>] man: they are those through which virtue and wisdom are either practiced or sought, and by which the body or mind is disposed towards all the best things. \u00a0From this source people customarily seek honor and glory, which for the wise man are the principal rewards of virtue. \u00a0Just as profit and pleasure are laid down as ends for illiberal intellects, so virtue and glory are goals for the noble.&#8221;\u00a0Piero Paolo Vergerio, \u201cCharacter and Studies Befitting a Free-Born Youth,\u201d in\u00a0<em>The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be An Educated Human Being<\/em>, ed. Richard M. Gamble. Wilmington\u00a02007, p. 313. [Italics in original]<\/p>\n<p>Vergerio, the great teacher of the early Renaissance, describes the nature of true liberal studies and their purpose. \u00a0Liberal derived from the Latin word, <em>liber<\/em>, meaning free. \u00a0Notice how Vergerio connects virtue and wisdom and identifies them as the goals of true learning. \u00a0 Following classical tradition, Vergerio points out that true virtue and glory are the noble goals to which the liberal person strives through the liberal arts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We call those studies liberal, then, which are worthy of a free [liber] man: they are those through which virtue and wisdom are either practiced or sought, and by which the body or mind is disposed towards all the best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/02\/20\/studies-of-free-individuals\/\">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":[5,65,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-liberal-arts","category-pietro-paulo-vergerio","category-renaissance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}