Part 1 Flashcards
What is the relationship between the humanities and technology?
a) Technology has led to an increase in globalization by making the world smaller and connecting people together through social networks via the internet.
b) Technology has increased our ability to preserve, document and share works of art, literature, and music in a way that is unprecedented.
What theme is found in multiple historical periods?
Individualism
How do we identify themes in a literary or artistic work?
Look for the unifying or main ideas.
What is true of myths?
a) They are traditional stories of a people or culture that are told to explain natural phenomena and to record values and belief systems from generation to generation.
b) They utilize archetypes and symbols to find a deeper understand of life.
Part of public ceremony, ritual, or entertainment dates back to the earliest human civilizations.
Dance
Stems from the early Greeks, with their development of tragedy and comedy.
Theater
Concerned with the interplay of form and function.
Architecture
Can include any system of ethics, values, and beliefs.
Religion
Which discipline of the Humanities is primarily concerned with critical inquiry and reasoned argument?
Philosophy
The Bayeux Tapestry’s depiction of the Norman Conquest of England fulfills which purpose of art?
Art as political propaganda
What are the Humanities?
The study of how the human race understands and documents the human experience through creative contributions in art, music, literature, philosophy, religion, dance, etc.
What are examples of universal themes?
Love and the Hero
Brotherly or selfless love
Agape
A recurrent example or model of human behavior
Archetypes
An experience of beauty that is its own justification
Aesthetic
Passionate or sexual love
Eros
A myth that is embraced by a majority of people throughout history
Monomyth
Why is E.O. Wilson’s theory of consilience important to the study of the Humanities?
It reinforces interdisciplinary study and facilitates the exchange of information necessary to create a more holistic understanding of who we are.
How was Humanism reflected in the non-western world?
Ancient Chinese culture embraced principles in Confucianism and Buddhism that mirrored Humanist principles.
How does studying the Humanities increase cross-cultural communication?
It helps us to interact with and understand a variety of people from different times and different places through their creative contributions.
