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Welcome to the Guild of Liberal Learning
What you learn here is of no direct, extrinsic purpose. Our art at the guild is autotelic, meaning its purposes are intrinsic, like the blossoming rose, whose activity begins and ends with the agent; so too will our mind-geist (espirit) evolve---we become by doing. Our trade is in ideas rather than objects, in words rather than things, in languages and literatures, stories and songs. To be sure, what you learn here may translate into something of practical use, but only indirectly, "practical use" is not our standard or criterion. This is not intended to denigrate the learning involved in vocational training, polytechnics, or other industrious and entrepreneurial efforts. Instead, we aim to alleviate the tensions, philosophical and political, between the liberal arts and the practical arts, and we do this first by acknowledging and allowing each their proper place. This is a place of learning, properly speaking, where a person may engage others, the world, and themselves in the adventures of human self-understanding, disentangled by the "urgencies of the here and now (hic et nunc)". By its very nature, this kind of education is necessarily cosmopolitan. It is an education that includes all human beings.
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Imaginarium, Observatory, Laboratory, and Conservatory, respectively.
Use the navigation bar, at the top right corner, with the symbols ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦️, to explore:
Imaginarium, Observatory, Laboratory, and Conservatory, respectively.
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