This kind of thinking, in turn, makes you wonder about the larger purpose of graduate school in the humanities — about the role it assumes in one's life.
Church fathers like St. Augustine inherited a dualistic understanding of spirit and body from the Greeks and assigned the female half of humanity the role of body, and the male half the spirit or intellect.
And as we try to reach out to the rest of the world, the humanities have a great role to play.
Students examine the value of humanities education during a time of economic turmoil by reflecting on their learning experiences and discussing the role the humanities play in their lives in school and beyond.
When you think about it, perhaps it's not so odd that the director of unforgettable documentaries about the death penalty, ski-jumping, erupting volcanoes, and life at the South Pole, would be into the exploring the role of humanity at the edge of the digital abyss.
Tom Kane is a monster but Kelsey was able to find the humanity in the role," says Safinia.
Karloff's great gift was to find the humanity in whatever role he played, especially in the horror films he made in the 1930s and 40s.
Here, however, a number of other closely connected issues also come into view: the nature and role of modern science and technology (see especially 1976a, 1998b), and together with this, the role of the humanities; the question of education and, in particular, of humanistic education (1992); the issue of understanding between cultures, and especially between religions.
This is the particular role of the humanities, and it is one of the great tasks of our times.
"There's also the fact that Roman culture has played such an integral role in the humanities".
