LIBERAL ARTS


Meaning of LIBERAL ARTS in English

College or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum.

In Classical antiquity, the term designated the education proper to a freeman (Latin liber , "free") as opposed to a slave. In the medieval Western university, the seven liberal arts were grammar, rhetoric, and logic (the trivium ) and geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy (the quadrivium ). In modern colleges and universities, the liberal arts include the study of literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, and science.

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.