Of What Use Are the Humanities?.

Hoffman, Robert

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ERIC Number: EJ265869

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Publication Date: 1982

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Of What Use Are the Humanities?

Hoffman, Robert

Academe, v68 n3 p25-27 May-Jun 1982

The criteria of practical benefit and objectivity applied to the humanities cannot keep them from their rightful place alongside mathematics and sciences as a worthwhile endeavor. These criteria are misleading. The humanities forge a sense of beauty, compassion, honor, humor, and shape love, friendship, and enmity. (MSE)

Descriptors: Academic Education, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Humanistic Education, Humanities, Liberal Arts

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Language: English

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