INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES!

Good day friends and to all of my fellow steemians..

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From the time immemorial has puzzled over the meaning of this existence.What am I? Why am i here in this world? Where do i go from here?

Through the ages,many attemps have been made to answer these questions. Attemps are done by great thingkers and yet even now it seems man has not yet found the definite answers to what he really is. The more man is puzzled of his existence,especially with the emergence of cyber technology.

To better understand what is to be human,we need to study humanity. But to do this we obiously cannot depend on direct contacts with fellow humans. Our lifetime is too short and naturally confined to a limited set of people,places and events. Thus,we need to reach out to other people of different cultures in different times and places. This encounter will make us become humanized and this is made possible through studying humanities.

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The Humanities and the Sciences

The humanities are distinct from science,which deals with the external world of man,as well as facets of man's being that can be subjected to obsrvetion,measurement and experimentation. The sciences enable man to understand and control nature and to harness its energy to make his life more comfortable.

The humanities on the other hand,deal with man's internal world with his personality and experiences,matters cannot be exactly measured,classified,or controlled. For the reason,the study of the humanities cannot be as precise nor as well-structured and uniform as the study of biology or physics.
The humanities' approach is subjective it makes use of perfection,feeling,intuition and insight (Ortiz 1976).

There is also a difference between the humanities and the social sciences. While both are concerned with man,the fucos of the humanities is on man as an individual. In the social sciences,the main interest is on types and groups of human beings,and on the institution and processes of society.

Man needs an image of himself,an understanding of his nature. Through words,tones,mass,line,color or design, the arts provide man with a measure of his own passions and desires. His relation with other men and his environment as well as his potentials. Both the science and the humanities are necessary for the development of the complete,social man ready to take on his responsibilities in this rapidly changing world and to enjoy life as he lives it.

Theology- a body of knowledge aimed to make man "human cultured and refined." This developed from the concept which recognized man's essential worth and capacity for self-advancement in this world. (Estolas,1995)

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In our century,the humanities serve to provide students with certain skills and values through arts. Instruction places his area of specialization withinbthe boarder perspective of the human condition and ideal as imaginatively rendered in painting,sculpture,photography,dance drama and cinema, as well as in the traditional components of the humanities.

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The humanities thus,provide more than just an appreciation of what is "the true,the good, and the beautiful." concepts which wary from age to age,from country to country. They are aimed to shape the student's subjective energies his feelings,attitudes and aspirations in accordance with a particular view of the social world in which he dreams,acts, and fulfills himself. The view about man and his world changes and so too the content and direction of the humanities; but in all cases,their principal task remains the same,which is to make man conscious and crictical of,and sensitive and responsive to the norms and hopes of his society.

Let me end by saying.

If man is to live like a human being. His heart and mind must be nourished. And the best spiritual nourishment comes from the Humanities.

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ahlawat (76) · 7 years ago

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