HUMANITIES

- are the stories, the ideas, and the words that help us make sense of our lives and our world
- introduce us to people we have never met, places we have never visited, and ideas that
may have never crossed our minds
- by showing how others have lived and thought about life, the humanities help us decide
what is important in our own lives and what we can do to make them better
- By connecting us with other people, they point the way to answers about what is right or
wrong, or what is true to our heritage, and our history
- Help us address the challenges we face together in our families, our communities, and as a
nation

The term HUMANITIES includes, but not limited to, the study and interpretation of the
following:
1. Language (both modern and classical)
2. Linguistics
3. Literature
4. History
5. Jurisprudence
6. Philosophy
7. Archaeology
8. Comparative religion
9. Ethics
10. The history
11. Criticism and the theory of the arts
12. Those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic
methods
13. The study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular
attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of
the humanities to the current conditions of national life

Humanities - including the study of languages, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy,

comparative religion, ethics, and the arts — ARE DISCIPLINES OF MEMORY AND
IMAGINATION, telling us where we have been and helping us envision where we are going.

Humanities - it is like the notion of time in St. Augustine : if you don't ask, we know, but if
you ask, we are left empty handed. Since the nineteenth century the humanities have
generally been defined as the disciplines that investigate the expressions of the human mind.
Such expression include language, music, art, literature, theatre, and poetry. Thus, philology,
linguistics, musicology, art history, literary studies, and theatre studies all belong to the
realm of humanities

Research stemming from a detailed understanding of human behavior, economies, cultures

and societies can dramatically redefine the crucial decisions we need to make. These
decisions may involve the future direction of our economy, ways of broadening and
strengthening education provision at all levels, or how we deal with the effects of climate or
constitutional change. The humanities and social sciences teach us how people have created
their world, and how they in turn are created by it.

The humanities are academic disciplines that study human culture. The humanities use
methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element
— as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences. The
humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, religion, and
visual performing arts such as music and theatre. Areas that are sometimes regarded as
social sciences and sometimes as humanities include history, archaeology, anthropology,
area studies, communication studies, classical studies, law and linguistics. The humanities
and social sciences teach us how people have created their world, and how they in turn are
created by it.

Humanities are academic disciplines that seek to understand and interpret the human
experience, from individuals to entire cultures engaging in the discovery, preservation, and
communication of the past and present record to enable a deeper understanding of
contemporary society. The humanities encompasses literature, classics, ancient and modern
languages, history philosophy, media studies, the fine and performing arts, and other related
subjects. It can be a challenge to show the benefits the Humanities bring.

Humanities is simply all about us, Humans.

- our importance
- how we express
- the experiences
- being cultured
- as a creation
- a future

SCIENCE - is the how

HUMANITIES - is the why

SCIENCE - is the brain

HUMANTIES - is the heart

SCIENCE - is the body

HUMANITIES - is the soul

SCIENCE - deals things measurable

HUMANITIES - deals things immeasurable

Humanities - about what is to be human

- understanding others in the world through their languages histories, and cultures
- they foster social justice and equality
- reveal how people have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of the world.
- they teach empathy

Humanities
- teach us to deal critically and logically with subjective, complex, imperfect information
- they teach us to weigh evidence skeptically, and consider more than one side of every
question
- humanities encourage us to think creatively
- they teach us to reason about being human and to ask questions about our world
- humanities students build skills in writing and critical reading

The humanities develop informed and critical citizens. Without the humanities democracy
will not flourish. The value of humanities is more often in the questions posed than the
answers found; Humanistic study is not formulaic.
One only needs to turn on the news to see that we need the skills and knowledge of the
humanities in:
1. Understanding other cultures
2. Being able to communicate effectively
3. Realising the ramifications of history
4. Analysing human behavior

We need to understand the role of the culture plays in people's lives : this is the role of
Humanities

IMPORTANCE OF HUMANITIES
1. Insights into everything - through the exploration of the humanities, we learn how to
think creatively and critically, to reason, and to ask questions. Because these skills allow us
to gain new insights into everything from poetry and paintings to business and politics,
humanistic subjects have been at the heart of a liberal arts education since the ancient
Greeks first used them to educate their citizen.

2. Understanding the world - research into the human experience adds to our knowledge
about our world. Through the work of humanities scholars, we learn about the values of
different cultures, about what goes into making a work of art, about how history is made.
Their efforts preserve the great accomplishments of the past, help us understand the world
we live in, and give us tools to imagine the future.

3. Bringing clarity to the future - today humanistic knowledge continues to provide

the ideal foundation for exploring and understanding the human experience.
Investigating a branch of philosophy might get you thinking about ethical questions.
Learning another language might help you gain an appreciation for the similarities in
different cultures. Contemplating a sculpture might make you think about how
artist's life affected her creative decisions.

HISTORY OF HUMANITIES
In the West, the study of the humanities can be traced to ancient Greece, as the
basis of a broad education for citizens.

During Roman times, the concept of the seven liberal arts evolved, involving

TRIVIUM
- grammar
- rhetoric
- logic

QUADRIVIUM
- arithmetic
- geometry
- astronomy
- music
Major shift occured with the Renaissance humanism of the fifteenth century, when
the humanities began to be regarded as subjects to study rather than practice, with
a corresponding shift away from traditional fields into areas such as literature and
history. In the 20th century, this view was in turn challenged by the postmodernist
movement, which sought to redefine the humanities in more egalitarian terms
suitable for a democratic society.

AREAS or DISCIPLINE OF SOCIETIES

1. Ancient and modern languages
2. Literature
3. History
4. Philosophy
5. Religion
6. Visual and performing arts

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio - Father of Architecture

Vitruvian Man in stored in the Gallerie Dell' Academia in Venice, Italy.

VITRUVIAN MAN AS DESCRIBED BY DAVINCI:

- a palm is the width if four fingers
- a foot is the width of four palms
- a cubit is the width of six palms
- a pace is four cubics
- a man's height is four cubits (or 24 palms)
- the length of a man's outspread ams (arm span) is equal to his height
- the distance from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is one-tenth of a man's height
- the distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin is one-eight of a man's
height
- the distance from the bottom of the neck to the hairline is one-sixth of a man's height
- the maximum width of the shoulders is a quarter of a man's height (one cubit)
- the distance from the middle of the chest to the top of the head is a quarter of a man's
height
- the distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is a quarter of a man's height (one cubit)
- the distance from the elbow to the arm pit is one-eighth of a man's height (half a cubit)

- the length of the hand is one-tenth of a man's height

- the distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose is one-third of the length of the head
- the distance from the hairline to the eyebrows is one-third of the length of the face
- the length of the ear is one-third of the length of the face
- the length of a man's foot is one-sixth of his height