Humanistic Discipline Today

: It must attend to history—specifically the "historical activity of understanding where [our ideas] came from"—because these ideas are contingent and have evolved over time.

: In fields like art history, it involves studying "documents" (traces of human thought/action) and "monuments" (artifacts that hold urgent meaning for us in the present). humanistic discipline

While many associate the term strictly with the "Humanities" or "Arts," thinkers like Williams and Jacob Bronowski argue that even science or biology (such as the study of ants) can be practiced as a humanistic discipline if the study helps us better understand our own place in the natural world. Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline : It must attend to history—specifically the "historical