Humanities
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The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences.
Examples of the disciplines, related to humanities are ancient and modern languages, literature, history, philosophy, religion, visual and performing arts (including music). Additional subjects sometimes included in the humanities are technology, anthropology, communication studies and cultural studies, although these are often regarded as social sciences. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes described as "humanists". However, that term also describes the philosophical position of humanism, which some "antihumanist" scholars in the humanities reject.
See also
- Great Books
- Liberal Arts
- Social sciences
- Phronetic social science
- Human science
- The Two Cultures
- List of academic disciplines
- Public humanities
- "Periodic Table of Human Sciences" in Tinbergen's four questions
