Being Human: An Introduction to Western Culture

by Jacqui Shehorn

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The humanities are branches of study focused on culture, values, and other ways that humans express themselves, like literature, art, history, philosophy, and religion. The idea of the humanities originates in Greece with paideia, or general education beginning with the Sophists in the fifth century BCE. The goal of these studies was to prepare young men to be good and active citizens and Cicero’s humanitas, which prepared young men to be orators.

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Publisher
West Hills College Lemoore
Subjects
Humanities
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. About the Book
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1: Beauty
  10. 1.1: What is beauty?
  11. 1.2: Ancient Greece and the Golden Age of Athens
  12. 1.3: Greek Art
  13. 1.4: Medieval Arts
  14. 1.5: The Baroque in Spain
  15. 1.6: The Renaissance
  16. 1.7: Art in the Renaissance
  17. 1.8: Renaissance Music
  18. 2: Love
  19. 2.1: What is love?
  20. 2.2: Philosophy and Religion in the Western Tradition
  21. 2.3: The Enlightenment
  22. 2.4: The Romantic Era
  23. 2.5: Music of the Romantic Era
  24. 2.6: Poetry of the Romantic Era
  25. 2.7: Transcendentalism
  26. 3: Discovery
  27. 3.1: What does it mean to make a discovery?
  28. 3.2: Plato and Aristotle
  29. 3.3: The Silk Road
  30. 3.4: Faith in the Enlightenment
  31. 3.5: The Discovery of the Americas
  32. 3.6: The Industrial Revolution
  33. 3.7: The Harlem Renaissance
  34. 4: Conquest
  35. 4.1: Ancient Rome
  36. 4.2: What is a conquest?
  37. 4.3: The Middle Ages
  38. 4.4: Spanish Exploration and Conquest
  39. 4.5: English Colonization
  40. 4.6: The Plight of the Native Americans
  41. 4.7: Tulsa Race Massacre
  42. 5: Freedom
  43. 5.1: What is freedom?
  44. 5.2: The Late Middle Ages
  45. 5.3: The Reformation
  46. 5.4: America Comes of Age
  47. 5.5: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Workers' Rights
  48. 5.6: The Civil Rights Movement
  49. Conclusion
  50. Back Matter
  51. Index
  52. Glossary
  53. Detailed Licensing
  54. Detailed Licensing