Humanities Interface with Science: A Matter of Necessity

 

Maduabuchi Dukor

 

Short Communication I Published May,2019

 

Research Journal of Educational Studies and Review Vol. 5 (1), pp. 1-3.

ABSTRACT

What many may have believed to be a widening gulf or gap between the Humanities and the Science in which the latter is seen to be eclipsing the former is only a phenomenon created by ignorance. Ignorance here is either the absence of reason, the inability of reason to interrogate a phenomenon systemically or analytically with the ultimate objective of finding out ‘what is’ and ‘what ought to be’. Reason can be defined as understanding which is and only is the property and quality of human faculty. Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason would define reason as the manifestation of sensibility and understanding but in the narrow sense refers to the human intellect as seeking the unconditional principle of the unity of all objects of experience, a manifold, on the idea of God. It does follow that reason is anti-emotion and broaches the sentimental while electing itself to the perpetual engagement with external objects of the world and reality. This reason’s engagement with the phenomenon is Humanities interface with Science and its supervening application called technology. Reason’s modal relation to phenomenon just as Art’s and humanities’ interface with science and technology is a logical necessity in the world.

Key Words: Humanities, philosophy, science, arts.

 

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