Give the importance of humanitites in our daily endeavor.?

Answer 1

Everything you know and every aspect of the modern world is built on the foundations of our history, our literature, and our understanding of ourselves as humans. Some examples...

- Concepts of freedom and democracy developed over centuries of policital, social, and philosophical thought. These did not spring up naturally, but great thinkers, who themselves knew and read the works of those who came before, made them happen.

- The first 'scientists' where more philosophers than what we consider scientists today. But, without their thoughts and their writings, science today would not exist. That includes modern medicine, physics, and chemistry.

- The study and knowledge of history is vital. For an excelent example, consider the Iraq war. The current events in Iraq are almost identical to what happened when the British 'owned' Iraq 60 years ago. If the current administration had read their history, the war might not be the fiasco that it is.

- I assume you read books and magazines, watch TV, or go see movies. All of these are 'humanities', how would your life be impacted if none of these existed?

Answer 2

Many American colleges and universities believe in the notion of a broad "liberal arts education", which places an emphasis on all college students studying the humanities in addition to their specific area of study. Prominent proponents of liberal arts in the United States have included Mortimer J. Adler[3] and E.D. Hirsch.

The 1980 United States Rockefeller Commission on the Humanities described the humanities in its report, The Humanities in American Life:

Through the humanities we reflect on the fundamental question: What does it mean to be human? The humanities offer clues but never a complete answer. They reveal how people have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of a world in which irrationality, despair, loneliness, and death are as conspicuous as birth, friendship, hope, and reason.

Criticism of the traditional humanities/liberal arts degree program has been leveled by many that see them as both expensive and relatively "useless" in the modern American job market, where several years of specialized study is required in many/most job fields. This is in direct contrast to the early 20th century when approximately 3% to 6% of the public at large had a university degree, and having one was a direct path to a professional life.

After World War II, many millions of veterans took advantage of the GI Bill. Further expansion of federal education grants and loans have expanded the number of adults in the United States that have attended a college or univeristy to be at least 60% of the population. As a consequence, degrees in such things as literature, art history, classics, etc, are no longer viewed as viable career path options by many. As a result, many graduates find themselves returning to school to earn another degree or waiting much longer than average to kick off their career successfully.

Meanwhile, there are many changes and debates occurring today in the humanities:

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Questioning distinctions
The very concept of the ‘humanities’ as a class or kind, distinct from the ’sciences’, has come under repeated attack in the twentieth century. T.S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions[4] argued that the forces driving scientific progress often have less to do with objective inference from unbiased observation than with much more value-laden sociological and cultural factors. More recently, Richard Rorty has argued that the distinction between the sciences and the humanities is harmful to both pursuits, placing the former on an undeserved pedestal and condemning the latter to irrationality. Rorty’s position requires a wholesale rejection of such traditional philosophical distinctions as those between appearance and reality, subjective and objective, replacing them with what he endorses as a new ‘fuzziness’. This leads to a kind of pragmatism where" the oppositions between the humanities, the arts, and the sciences, might gradually fade away... In this situation, ‘the humanities’ would no longer think of themselves as such...."[5]

Answer 3

Excuse the trite expression "Man does not live by bread alone" You also need some chow for the brain and the spirit.

Answer 4

I believe that it enriches a persons culture and aids in supressing the human instinct to be over-judgemental of others.

Answer 5

Matter is very imprtent,so u have written about the matter. most importent matter is, in one word ,TO LIVE IN BLISS' Bliss encompasses every thing,Tangible and intangible

Answer 6

Without the humanities, life would be that much more stressful...

Answer 7

It depends..

Answer 8

yes.