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Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguistics. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes describe ...more
The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguistics. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes describe ...more
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In life, we are often left alone by those people with whom we always loved to be along.
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Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443)
There's not one but two kinds of knowledge,
one is empirical, another is existential.
Maths, physics, chemistry, biology,
these are empirical knowledge that explore
the building blocks of life and universe,
whereas existential knowledge of the humanities
make us unfold new meanings of life and universe,
not in an archaic, blind, preordained sort of way,
but by fostering a deeper sense of lived community.
Empirical disciplines are instrument of efficiency,
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― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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