The world of ART

Expressing oneself through the arts

is one of the earliest and most basic
human activities.
Origin: HUMANITY

Latin Latin Old French

Humanus Humanitas Humanite

Humanity
English Middle English

Human
HUMANITIES
Plural of humanity. Which has been used in
English from late 15c in a sense “class of studies
concerned with human culture.
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• are collection of ways or means, or academic
disciplines, which helps us to understand our past
through the study of language, literature, ethics,
philosophy, art, jurisprudence, history.
West - the ancient Greece culture

East - the Indus Valley civilization

Middle-east - the civilization at Mesopotamia

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The evolution of the
western humanities is
believed to have taken its
root in ancient Greece.

Great poets like Homer

and philosophers like
Socrates and Plato
infused life into the study
of seven art forms
popularly known as the
seven liberal arts.
Grammar
Dialectic (Logic)
Rhetoric
Arithmetic
Music
Astronomy
Geometry
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In the East, in the golden triangle which
involves India, China, and Tibet/China there
was a renaissance of similar faculties.

The Vedas were the finest creation of that time.

VEDAS are a collection of hymns and other

ritual texts of the old Indic society.
Rig-Veda
(“Knowledge of the Hymns of Praise”, for recitation)
Sama-Veda
(“Knowledge of the Melodies”, for chanting)
Yajur-Veda
(“Knowledge of the Sacrificial formulas”, for liturgy)
Atharva-Veda
(“Knowledge of the Magic formulas”, named after a
kind of group of priests).
The main focus of the eastern
humanities was dominated by
metaphysics and the complete
development of body, mind
and soul.
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Mesopotamia Called the Cradle of Middle East
Civilization because it is generally recognized
with being the first place where civilized
societies truly began to take shape.
Humanities studies human condition such as:
Ancient and modern languages
Literature
Philosophy
Religion
Performing arts (music and theater)
History
Anthropology
Communication studies
Cultural studies
Law
Economics and
Linguistics
The importance of humanities is that it is an
academic discipline that studies the human
condition, it includes ancient and modern
languages, such as literature, philosophy and
religion.