The Disciplines

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Introduction to Humanities (Module 1: Foundations of Humanities) Mind Map on The Disciplines, created by Justin Bullock on 12/10/2016.
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The Disciplines
  1. Music
    1. An artistic form of auditory expression that incorporates instruments or human voices in a structured and continuous manner. Music is "the shaped sound between silences."
    2. Religion
      1. An organized system of spiritual beliefs and practices, usually offering a moral code and a worldview.
        1. Religions often provide their followers a series of codified beliefs including: sacred writings or texts worship practices, including important ceremonies and rituals theology that seeks to explain the nature of God, the reasons for existence, the afterlife, etc. code of morality or religious law
        2. Cinema
          1. An artistic medium that uses the motion picture as a vehicle for storytelling and other creative expressions.
            1. The product of cinema is known as a film or movie.
            2. Visual Arts
              1. Art forms that entail creation of primarily visual works, which can be two- or three- dimensional.
                1. These include painting, illustration, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.
                2. Literature
                  1. Art form of the written word. It refers to an individual literary work or collectively to the creative writing of a people, nation, or culture.
                    1. The foundation of literature is storytelling.
                      1. Major forms include: Poetry (including the epic or narrative poem) The novel Plays The short story Drama as a written work is literature. Drama performed by actors on the stage is theater.
                      2. Theater
                        1. A branch of the performing arts in which actors perform a drama or musical before a live audience.
                          1. Theater is a storytelling art. It often combines speech, music, gesture, dance, stagecraft, and spectacle into a single art form.
                          2. Dance
                            1. An art form involving a sequence of rhythmic movements or steps usually performed to music.
                              1. Dance as a part of public ceremony, ritual, or entertainment dates back to the earliest human civilizations.
                              2. Architecture
                                1. The science and art of designing buildings and other structures. Architecture as art is concerned with the aesthetic effect of structures in their surrounding environment.
                                  1. Architects are generally concerned with the interplay of the structure's function (the purpose it serves) and form (its appearance or visual presence).
                                  2. Philosophy
                                    1. The systematic investigation of fundamental questions concerning such matters as existence, reality, consciousness, knowledge, truth, and justice.
                                      1. Philosophy's object is the pursuit of wisdom about the nature of these matters. Critical inquiry and reasoned argument generally distinguish it.
                                        1. Metaphysics (nature of being and the world) Epistemology (nature and scope of knowledge) Ethics (moral philosophy) Aesthetics (nature of beauty and art) Logic (nature of reasoning) Philosophy of mind (nature of the mind and its relationship to the body)
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