The Humanities that have neglected their humanity (WSJ, Jan 3rd - TopicsExpress



          

The Humanities that have neglected their humanity (WSJ, Jan 3rd 2014). The Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino said that a man lives as many millennia as are embraced by his knowledge of history. One could add: A man lives as many different lives as are embraced by his encounters with literature, music and all the humanities and arts. These forms of expression allow us to see and feel things that we would otherwise never experience—society on a 19th-century Russian feudal estate, for example, or the perfect crystalline brooks and mossy shades of pastoral poetry, or the exquisite languor of a Chopin nocturne.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:00:00 +0000

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