Humanities Today Paper
ETH316
April 13, 2015
Nye Clinton
Humanities Today Paper
This paper will discuss current forms of humanities and how we relate to them in a present. This paper will differentiate between the humanities and other modes of human inquiry and expression. It will address the definition of humanities; provide examples of Art, Music, Architecture, Philosophy, and Literature and explain why each model reflects current developments in politics, socioeconomics, and technology.
Humanities provides people from different cultural backgrounds to experience and gain knowledge about the present and past differences. Humanities is also the study of opposing studies of life combined with history. Today; humanities by name are no different from the past. As the world changes from day to day, so has the age of humanities and how people define themselves through the many forms self-expression also known as humanities. Art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature are what our society thrives on. Without these humanities, the world would not have a place in history, and there would be a sense of displacement. We need Humanities to continue learning so we can continue teaching generations to come of how we came to be who we are and how the present would be nonexistent without a past.
The saying “There is nothing new under the sun” encapsulates humanities back then to humanities today. While everything that is practiced presently did not just come into existence on its own, we must give proper credit to the true origin, which brings us to the studies of humanities.
Our younger generation would never have the history needed to understand completely how the world came to be if there were not classes, instructors, teachers, and parents, etc. to educate them on humanities. They would never understand that everything they put their hands to do is because of what was experienced in the past. Yes, the world has indeed...