Concept
Human science
Overview
Human science (or human sciences in the plural) studies the philosophical, biological, social, justice, and cultural aspects of human life. Human science aims to expand the understanding of the human world through a broad interdisciplinary approach. It encompasses a wide range of fields - including history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, justice studies, evolutionary biology, biochemistry, neurosciences, folkloristics, and anthropology. It is the study and interpretation of the experiences, activities, constructs, and artifacts associated with human beings. The study of human sciences attempts to expand and enlighten the human being's knowledge of its existence, its interrelationship with other species and systems, and the development of artifacts to perpetuate the human expression and thought. It is the study of human phenomena. The study of the human experience is both historical and current. It requires evaluating and interpreting the historical human experience and analyzing current human activity to understand human phenomena and to outline human evolution. Human science is an objective, informed critique of human existence and how it relates to reality. Underlying human science is the relationship between various humanistic modes of inquiry within fields such as history, sociology, folkloristics, anthropology, and economics and advances in such things as genetics, evolutionary biology, and the social sciences for the purpose of understanding our lives in a rapidly changing world. Its use of an empirical methodology that encompasses psychological experience, in contrast to the purely positivistic approach typical of the natural sciences, which relies solely on sensory observation. Modern approaches in the human sciences integrate an understanding of human structure, function, and adaptation with a broader exploration of what it means to be human. The term is also used to distinguish not only the content of a field of study from that of the natural sciences, but also its methodology.
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The doctrines concerning those two subjects were considered as making two distinct sciences. What are called metaphysics, or pneumatics, were set in opposition to physics, and were cultivated not only as the more sublime, but, for the purposes of a particular profession, as the more useful science of the two. The proper subject of experiment and observation, a subject in which a careful attention is capable of…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Yet while the intellect is thus made the servant of the heart, far from being weakened by this subordinate position, it finds in it an exhaustless field, in which the value of its labours is amply recognized. Each of its faculties is called directly into play, and is supplied with its appropriate employment. Poetry institutes the forms of the worship of Humanity; Science supplies the principles on which those forms…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
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1. Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to…
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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Philosophers who discussed Human science
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- History
- Principle of sufficient reason
- Geology
- Genetics
- Auguste Comte
- Philosophy
- Verstehen
- Analytic philosophy
- John Locke
- Adam Smith
- Sociology
- Metaphysics
- Hypothesis
- Explanation
- Species
- Observation
- Psychology
- Perception
- University of Cambridge
- Science
- Social science
- Scientific method
- Positivism
Place in the tradition
Part of Positivism.