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Leisure and the Liberal Arts

A man at leisure is happy to be human. He realizes that he isn’t bound to instinct and survival like an animal, but that his gifts of reason and language set him apart as something more.

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October 21, 2024 No Comments

Leisure, according to Josef Pieper

“Man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refuses to have anything as a gift.”

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September 16, 2024 No Comments
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