Humanity (extra)

Humanities, say about modern science, as a general term is defined by the position of the human values ​​and purpose, the spirit of science and culture of all human beings and human beings.

In the concept of today, called the humanities of ancient Greece the oldest origin was "paideia". Is meant that the sophists who in the mid-fifth century BC to know the day of the pie in the sense of learning and education grow into healthy citizens of the city-state young people, here, gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, it has been music, elementary school, geography, natural philosophy, and philosophy are included. Latin "humanitas", has the meaning of "human nature" in this word, but education to train the orator and is written for the first time in this Cicer 55 BC wrote that "About orator" It was a word that means the program.

In other words, while overcoming the human outlook negative of the new center of gravity of the Middle Ages, literature was meant to general education to train the educated person of the Greco-Roman era, the human view of ancient and become the Renaissance while re-inheritance, humanities alleged "survey for cultural" and is "learning to complete the noble spirit of man". It means that it is separated from the materials and methods of natural science to explore objectively the phenomenon that came to 19 century, occur in the world and the world, to find the identity of the humanities, but learning to pursue the facts of humanities rather, in terms of academic obviously something to do with "humanity", it is possible to see people of Renaissance-defined, traditional concepts and humanities is has been handed down to posterity almost.

Claim that must also distinguish social science humanities, as well as natural science came out, accordingly, in the interdisciplinary university that was reconstructed after World War II, the humanities, the liberal arts, It is divided into social science and natural science areas of interest are different from country to country. In the United States, while the means of art and general philosophy, literature, history, and is placed in the natural sciences and the social sciences psychology, social history, philosophy is included in France, in Germany, mental science, history I'm incorporate specific, and cultural science.