Why is the philosophy catagory in Arts and Humanities and not under.......?

Question

Science and Mathematics or Social Science? How in the world could they put philosophy in the same arena with dancing?

Answer 1

It could be considered an Art.......The Art of Thinking=)

Answer 2

Love of wisdom is supposes to be over all disciplines and somehow a refinement also, a higher inquiry, not so basic as science, dealing with mostly mater and the mechanics. Life is hopefully more than mechanics, although that can be raised to an art. Try mechanicing and tell me that mechanics and science aren't art and spiritual, but that's how it goes. Artificial categories, infinitly valuable and also worthless. Life is all seeming contradictions, why not this too. Did you ever say anything and not get contradicted. Not in my house. When we break down narrow categories like high walls to where we can step over them, maybe we can stop bopping each other over the head and worse. A word can mean anything, it depends on who you talk to. We aren't really speaking the same language at all, it just sounds similar. God is even harder to define, should we say everything all rolled into one. Where does truth go? Is science loveless? Check the library and see that they keep having a problem as we get to know more.

Answer 3

Actually, philosophy is grouped likewise in university. Arts and Humanities cover a wide scope, as does philosophy itself. Philosophy is not however, a social science. Social sciences have an element of the scientific method in it (exceeding little in some disciplines :).
Philosophy is where the scientific method sprang from, but most philosophies do not need to follow any strict structures.

Peace

Answer 4

Possibly because the "likes of" current Sciences are too rigid.
I recently asked on that site if anyone had(dared) criticise the famous proof of kurt Godel(he proved in1930s
that arithmetic was "undercidable"!);hardly anyone answered
but one who did said that,because it was a (math) Proof,it
was set-in-stone(my words)-although,he was fair and said that he had tried and failed "to find "holes" in it"!!!

And i now think that its probably a proved fact too-far-for
mathematics(and arith).
So its up-to us (dancing) softies in the humanities and arts
section,to have a go and try to make some sense if not
complete sense of it!
And i think its not too difficult,either. There are plenty of
people withbrains here;slow and methodical and quick thinkers alike;just so long as they are not afraid to take a
small risk(!)
And at least none of them are at risk of dancing and breaking
their leg,either(they can do that in their spare time!).

Answer 5

"And everything comes to One,
As we dance on, dance on, dance on."

Theodore Roethke