- About 200 years ago, Humanities research started as highly Euro-centric discipline
- Knowledge and understanding (they are different) — their connection to
- 3 group model of academic disciplines
- Natural sciences
- Social sciences
- Humanities
- 5 group model
- Formal sciences
- Engineering sciences
- Sciences of the human mind — examines all the artifacts created by the humanity
- Culture in both broad and narrow sense.
- Broad: Culture in contrast to nature, referring everything that humans have contributed to the world.
- Narrow: economy, culture, politics in phrases like “the culture of the Elizabethan area”
- Humanities in different languages:
- Liberal meaning of science/wissenchaft: evidence based, used both for natural sciences and humanities (bu discourse’a bağlanabilir)
- vs Science in conservative sence / for non-natural sciences “studies” is used
- Renaissance Humanism played a key role in development of Humanities
- Globality and Locality
- Although humanities is global, it is more local than the natural sciences, the formal sciences, engineering and even most social sciences.
- This is why in many countries, humanities is concerned with nationally and regionally relevant subjects.
- thematically global but principle of locality/socio-cultural embededness co-characterizes the humanities.
- Disciplines under humanities umbrella are interconnected,