Humanities

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What are the humanities?

http://shc.stanford.edu/what-are-the-humanities

The humanities can be described as the study of how people process and document the human experience. Since humans have been able, we have used philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language to understand and record our world. These modes of expression have become some of the subjects that traditionally fall under the humanities umbrella. Knowledge of these records of human experience gives us the opportunity to feel a sense of connection to those who have come before us, as well as to our contemporaries.

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Humanities

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The humanities are academic disciplines that study human culture. The humanities use methods that are primarily critical[1], or speculative [2], and have a significant historical element^[1]—as distinguished from the mainlyempirical approaches of the natural sciences.^[1] The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, religion, and musicology. Areas that are sometimes regarded^{[by whom?]} as social sciences and sometimes as humanities include  history, archaeology,anthropology, area studies, communication studies, classical studies,law, semiotics and linguistics.

Scholars in the humanities are "humanities scholars" or humanists.^[2]The term "humanist" also describes the philosophical position of humanism, which some "antihumanist" scholars in the humanities refuse. The Renaissance scholars and artists were also called humanists. Some secondary schools offer humanities classes, usually consisting of English literature, global studies, and art.

Human disciplines like history and cultural anthropology study subject matters that the experimental method does not apply to—and instead mainly use the comparative method^[3] and comparative research.

 

 

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[1] tính từ

 ( critical of somebody / something) chỉ trích; chê bai; phê phán

a critical remark, report

 lời nhận xét, báo cáo phê phán

the inquiry was critical of her work

 cuộc điều tra có ý chỉ trích công việc của cô ta

why are you always so critical?

 sao anh cứ phê phán hoài vậy?

 bình phẩm, phê bình

in the current critical climate, her work is not popular

 

 

[2] có tính chất suy đoán, liên quan đến suy đoán, được hình thành do suy đoán; tự biện

 đầu cơ, tích trữ

speculative housing

 việc làm nhà có tính chất đầu cơ