Marty Tichnell: And the same question comes up again
Kassie Kay: Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes described as "humanists".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumanitiesWe know of humanities as a loosely defined group of academic subjects united by a commitment to studying aspects of the human condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to define any discipline. Unlike other subjects, it is not a group of scientific or technical subjects.Academically, we refer to the humanities as the study of arts â€" the visual arts such as architecture, painting and sculpture; music; dance; the theater or drama; and literature. They are the branches of learning concerned with the human thought, feelings and relations.The study of arts is the study of mankind. Humanities, being the study of arts, have always been concerned with the importance of human being, his feelings, and how he expresses those feelings. However, it shoul! d be stressed that the humanities emphasize analysis and exchange of ideas rather than the creative expression of the arts or the quantitative explanation of the sciences....Show more
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