Humanistic - Discipline

According to Williams and other scholars like Erwin Panofsky, the proper features of such a discipline include:

: Its primary function is to help humans make sense of their lives, ideas, and experiences in the specific situation they find themselves in. humanistic discipline

: Despite not being a science, it remains a "discipline" that requires clarity, reasoned argument, and "getting it right". According to Williams and other scholars like Erwin

: In fields like art history, it involves studying "documents" (traces of human thought/action) and "monuments" (artifacts that hold urgent meaning for us in the present). such as mortality

: It often emphasizes human shared characteristics, such as mortality, reason, and the responsibility individuals have for themselves and others.