LESSON 6

• Basic question in the humanities

  What is the human essence?
• The answer to the basic question in the humanities is the human essence
• These words capture your essence and make you unique
• Three (3) Human Faculties

  • Mind (Reason, Thinking)
  • Will (Emotion, Feeling)
  • Senses (Perception, Sensing)
• Analysis of Art Based on the Three Human Faculties

  1. Level of the Senses (Perceptual Elements, Representations)

  2. Level of the Will (Emotional Suggestions)

  3. Level of the Mind (Intellectual Meaning)
• The message of the painting is telling the audience
• The message of the song "Dust in the Wind"


  Compared to the message of Stynweck's painting "The Vanities of Human Life"
• When presented with a blank paper with no specks but a dot, most of us would zoom right into the dot