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.
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.
“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.”