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The meaning of the Humanities, including the various sub-disciplines within it, and its relationship to Liberal Arts - Accurate Answers -The Humanities is a field of study that explores the questions of what it is to be human in the abstract sense of the term.
-It's a Family of academic discipline...
HUM FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
HUM FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |
VERIFIED
The meaning of the Humanities, including the various sub-disciplines
within it, and its relationship to Liberal Arts - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ -
The Humanities is a field of study that explores the questions of what it
is to be human in the abstract sense of the term.
-It's a Family of academic disciplines that include Philosophy, Religion,
Visual arts, performing arts, language arts, and history
Various approaches to studying the Humanities - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ -History of humanity and culture: learning about key
events, intellectual and artistic movements, and other valuable works in
the development of human culture.
-Wisdom and cultivation of humanity: examining the "great" creative
and intellectual works to develop deeper insights into how we have
,come to believe and be as we presently are, but also to use these works
to nourish our humanity and grow wiser.
-Social construction of power: Critically examining the influence revere
trends, movements, creative and intellectual works have shaped
contemporary culture and its power relations
The value of art, uses of history and philosophy, as per the School of
Life videos - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Art
-It keeps us hopeful
-It makes us less lonely
-It re-balances us
-It helps us to appreciate things
-It is propaganda for what really matters
History
-It provides us with solutions to many problems of the present
-It's full of good ideas
-It teaches us that things can change
-It can teach us courage
Philosophy
-It helps us ask big questions
-It helps us use common sense
-It helps us be less confused
-It helps us know ourselves better
, Benton and DiYanni's discussion of the various aspects of the humanities
including art (for example, how does color play a role in painting; varied
uses of art throughout history) - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ "The
humanities represent the most significant and vital of human
accomplishments--they reflect our achievements from the beginning of
human life in prehistory. Included are the most important developments
in the history of civilization: various forms of art--painting, sculpture,
and architecture; the emergence of literature, drama, and music; the
creation of philosophies and religions that have modeled the thoughts
and actions of countless people worldwide; and the historical study of
these occurrences." (xiv)
In what ways can we "actively engage" or participate in the humanities,
according to Richard Jewell - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ -See a play,
concert, or dance.
-Attend an art or sculpture exhibition.
-Go to a historical museum.
-Describe one's own philosophy of life.
-Create a work of art.
-Study the basis of other world religions.
-Experience a foreign culture for a day.
-Write about such experiences before and after.
-Discuss such experiences with each other.
In what ways do we experience the humanities, as per Benton and
DiYanii - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Art and architecture, literature and
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