ENGC44H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Auditory Cortex, Signify, Maria Popova
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What are the humanities: the study of human culture in all its aspects. History, language, literature, classical studies, jurisprudence (law), philosophy, ethics, and comparative religion, as well as the history, theory and criticism of the visual and performing arts. They also give voice to feeling and artistic shape to experience, balancing passion and rationality and exploring issues of morality and value. 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. : engage with the work of others. In pursuing a line of inquiry or research, scholars need to identify and engage with what others have written about a subject. Humanities scholars are obligated to examine texts, images and sounds carefully.
