인문학이란 무엇인가? Humanities (위키피디아, Wikipedia)

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The humanities are academic disciplines that study human culture. The humanities use methods that are primarilycritical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element^[1]—as distinguished from the mainly empiricalapproaches of the natural sciences.^[1] The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy,religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. Areas that are sometimes regarded^{[by whom?]} associal sciences and sometimes as humanities include history, anthropology, area studies, communication studies,cultural studies, law and linguistics.

Scholars in the humanities are "humanities scholars" or humanists.^[2] The term "humanist" also describes the philosophical position of humanism, which some "antihumanist" scholars in the humanities refuse. The Renaissance scholars and artists were also called humanists. Some secondary schools offer humanities classes, usually consisting of English literature, global studies, and art.

Human disciplines like history, cultural anthropology, and psychoanalysis study subject matters that the experimental method does not apply to—and instead mainly use the comparative method^[3] and comparative research.

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