The Difference Between Science and the Humanities Is Reading the Classics
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AWM #75: On what distinguishes the two main branches of knowledge 📜
For centuries a great has been waged across the universities and places of learning of the world. On one side of the battlefield: science, with its legions of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and countless battalions and divisions within them. On the other side: the humanities, organized into the armies of philosophy, literature, history, the arts, and theology. (And in between, changing camps as they see fit, the “social sciences” of sociology, economics, political science, psychology, linguistics, etc.) Why do we divide the academic disciplines thus? It wasn’t always like this.…
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