Lesson 1: Humanities and Arts in the Western Concept

Question 1

The term ‘Western art’ largely describes the art of western Europe but is also used as a general category for forms of art that are now geographically widespread but that ________

Answer 1

have their roots in Europe.

Question 2

___is being humane, cultured and refined.

Answer 2

Humanities

Question 3

It is a discipline of memory and imagination, telling us where we have been and helping us envision where we are going.

Answer 3

Humanities

Question 4

What subjects/human disciplines are being studied in Humanities?

Answer 4

History
Art
Language
Philosophy

Question 5

What are the 2 general fields of learning?

Answer 5

Science and Humanities

Question 6

Human events happening in the world

Answer 6

History

Question 7

Written and oral forms of human communication

Answer 7

Language

Question 8

Human reason concerning reality

Answer 8

Philosophy

Question 9

Admiration of human made objects and the human creativity by which these objects were made

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Art

Question 10

Deals with natural, physical phenomena

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The sciences

Question 11

Deals with human phenomena

Answer 11

The humanities

Question 12

Gods in the state of perfection in heaven

Answer 12

divinitas

Question 13

People in the state of culture in civilized society

Answer 13

humanitas

Question 14

savages in the state of nature for survival

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barbaritas

Question 15

The word humanitas comes from a Latin word ___ which means human, cultured and refined.

Answer 15

humanus

Question 16

Ancient: ____ view

Answer 16

Cosmocentric

Question 17

Medieval: ____ view

Answer 17

Theocentric

Question 18

Renaissance: __view

Answer 18

Anthropocentric

Question 19

Modern: ___ view

Answer 19

Scientific-technocentric

Question 20

Postmodern: __view

Answer 20

Eclectic

gathering ideas from a broad range of resources

Question 21

“Human is the measure of all things”

Answer 21

Protagoras

Question 22

Protagoras: _____humanities

Answer 22

Ancient

Question 23

Scholasticism: __humanities

Answer 23

Medieval

Question 24

Human is created in the image of God

Answer 24

Scholasticism

Question 25

Man is at the center of creation: _____humanities

Answer 25

Medieval

Question 26

Nothing is more wonderful than man

Answer 26

Humanism

Question 27

Humanism: ____humanities

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Renaissance

Question 28

Human is a part of nature: __humanities

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Modern

Question 29

Human is a piece of everything: __humanities

Answer 29

Postmodern

Question 30

Humanities is the study of ____phenomena, while Science is the study of ______phenomena

Answer 30

Human, Natural (Physical)

Question 31

______ refers to the state where humanity embraced the refinement of character and culture of excellence.

Answer 31

Humanities or humanitas

Question 32

It is a value, limitation, or quality of giving purpose to and reason for an action.

Answer 32

Humanities or humanitas

Question 33

____may have originated from the factors that allow humans to think rationally within their culture.

Answer 33

Humanitas

Question 34

The birth of _____is a significant factor in the history of art.

Answer 34

Humanism

Question 35

It is the conviction of the dignity of man, based on both the insistence on human values (rationality and freedom) and the acceptance of human limitations (fallibility and frailty).

Answer 35

Humanism

Question 36

The respect for moral values and that gracious blend of learning and urbanity

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Pietas

Question 37

Two meanings of humanitas based on history

Answer 37

Humanitas as a value (relative to savages)

Humanitas as a limitation (relative to the gods)