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- Key People:
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Charles Homer Haskins
- Related Topics:
- historiography
- social science
- geography
- humanism
- art criticism
humanities, those branches of knowledge that concern themselves with human beings and their culture or with analytic and critical methods of inquiry derived from an appreciation of human values and of the unique ability of the human spirit to express itself. As a group of educational disciplines, the humanities are distinguished in content and method from the physical and biological sciences and, somewhat less decisively, from the social sciences. The humanities include the study of all languages and literatures, the arts, history, and philosophy. The humanities are sometimes organized as a school or administrative division in many colleges and universities ...(100 of 642 words)