Art appr. Lesson 1

• Humanities came from the Latin word “humanus” which means

  refined, cultured and human.
• Humanities came from the Latin word “humanus” which means

  refined, cultured and human.
• Refined

  -Proper etiquette and decorum, being civilized, and know how socialize properly.
• Human

  -Having the nature being a human.
• Cultured

  -Adaptation to environment (social interaction, norms).
• Human nature

  Rational being

  Emotional being

  Spiritual being

  Social/relational being

  Freewill
• Rationale being

  -comes from the word

  ‘rationalis’, meaning reasonable or logical.
• If you’re rational, you

  do things on logic, as opposed to impulse or whimsy.
• Emotional being

  -people who are emotionally healthy are in control of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
• Spiritual being

  -we are aware that our

  existence is not only limited in this temporal world. Most of us

  believe that “there is life after death”
• Social/relational being

  -we have a deep need for “real” social connections, and research indicates supportive relationships are good for us in various ways.
• Freewill

  -the power or ability of the human mind to choose a

  course of action or make a decision.
• Freedom

  -to do only what is good and what is right.
• Responsible actions perpetuate freedom.
• Humanities

  -The expression of ourselves without using of words such as

  painting, sculptures, dancing, mosaic, cross stitch, collage, etc.
• Humanities

  -The study of man’s expression feelings, thought, intuition, values, and ideas.
• Humanities

  -The study of man’s experience, goals, and aspirations. It is used to dramatize individual expressions.
• Through his bare hands, man constructed infrastructures that

  tended to his needs, like his house. He sharpened swords and

  spears. He employed fire in order to melt gold. The initial

  meaning of the word “art” has something to do with all these

  craft.
• “The humanities constitute one of the oldest and most important

  means of expression developed by man” (Dudley et al., 1960).
• Human history has witnessed how man evolved not just

  physically but also culturally, from cave painters to men of

  exquisite paintbrush users of the present.
• Any human person, then, is tasked to participate, if not, totally partake in this long tradition of humanizing himself.
• The Humanities, then, ironically, have started even before the

  term has been coined.
• Man has always tried to express his innermost thought and feelings about reality through creating art.
• Medieval age

  -The humanities dealt with the

  metaphysics of the religious philosopher.
• Metaphysics

  -is the investigation of ultimate reality.
• Renaissance period

  -To make man richer because

  during that time only the rich people can make art like paintings, sculpture and etc.
• 19th and 20th century

  -To appreciate and understand

  the importance of human being, his ideas and aspirations.
• Anthropology

  -The study of human societies and cultures and their development
• Anthropology

  -the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution.
• Sociology

  -The study of the development, structure, and function of human society.
• Philosophy

  -The study of general and fundamental questions

  about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and beauty.
• Religion

  -The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling

  power, especially a personal God or gods.
• History

  -The study of past events, particularly in human affairs.
• History

  -The whole series of past events connected with someone or

  something.
• Literature

  -Most generically, it is anybody of written works.
• More restrictively, literature refers to writing considered to be an

  art form or any single writing deemed to have artistic or

  intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that

  differ from ordinary usage.