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The Humanities and Humanistic Scholarship

Subject Outline

AHistory of humanistic scholarship
- 1The beginnings of learning: the ideal of paideia
  - aHomeric education: the ideal of the hero
  - bThe Sophists and Socrates: the turn to logos, the beginnings of rhetoric
  - cPlato and the Academy: the relation of theology to mythology, mathematics in the service of philosophy
  - dAristotle and the Lyceum: the invention of logic, the division and organization of the sciences
  - eHellenistic scholarship: the development of literary and textual criticism, Alexandria and Pergamum as cultural centres
  - fThe Roman ideal of humanitas : the training of the orator
  - gThe conflict of cultural ideals: the battle among rhetoric, philosophy, and science
- 2Christian learning in antiquity and the Middle Ages
  - aThe Christianization of pagan culture: the reconciliation of classical humanism with , Christian revelation
  - bThe codification of the liberal arts: the trivium and the quadrivium
  - cThe founding of the universities
  - dThe Scholastic method: logic and the genres of theological exposition
  - eFaith and reason: the distinction of philosophy from sacred theology
- 3The development of humane letters from the Renaissance to the present
  - aThe idea of Renaissance: the ideal of the classical, the rise of the vernacular, the concept of the dignity of the free individual
  - bHumanism and the new learning
  - cThe search for a universal method
  - dThe separation of science from philosophy: the rise and development of empirical science
  - eThe quarrel between ancients and moderns: the problem of progress in learning
  - fThe growth of modern humanistic scholarship: the transition from the ideal of belles lettres to the scientific investigation of antiquity through archaeology and philology
  - gThe rise and development of the liberal arts college and the graduate school [see 562.B.]
  - hThe growth and proliferation of special disciplines: the knowledge explosion
    - iThe organization of the contemporary university: questions of its social responsibility, the profession of learning [see 561.C.1.C.]
- 4The Jewish tradition of humanistic scholarship: its nature, methods, and development; its relation to classical and Christian learning
- 5The Islamic tradition of humanistic scholarship: its nature, methods, and development; its relation to classical and Christian learning
- 6The humanities and humanistic scholarship in the East: in India, in China, in Japan
BThe humanities
- 1Diverse views of the definition and scope of the humanities
- 2The humanities as an educational program: the question of the humanities as a unified field of study
- 3Theories of the humanities as a fundamental division of knowledge: the question of the distinction of the humanities from the sciences