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Issue132"The university community consists of three different worlds—the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Because each world operates on its own assumptions and has its own special habits of thinking, rarely is there meaningful interaction among the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences."
People usually divide the knowledge studied in the university community into three parts: the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. For a long time, many person have held the view that there is little interaction among them due to their own assumptions and special habits of thinking. However, I think that though the assumptions and habits of thinking are different, the sciences, the humanities and the social sciences still interact each other.
To begin with, the sciences have effect on the humanities, and the humanities impact the sciences through educating scientists. In the old time, people usually thought that the sciences and humanities are so distinct that they could not contact them. However, many persons, who study the humanities, do their work better through studying the sciences. Da Vince is a good example in case, who was a famous artist in the field of the humanities. In the Middle age, people who engaged in the painting always work on the basis of their own feeling and the people drawn on the painting were not like the ones living in the real world. But Da Vince through studying sciences found the best ratio of drawing somebody. Meanwhile, he dissected the dead bodies to study the construction of human beings. Due to the hard work, he created one of the most famous and valuable paintings in the world, which is Mona Lisa. On the other hand, many scientists study the spirit of the people before them and work for the wealth of all human beings. Studying other people's spirit is one aspect of the humanities. Many scientists in the modern society respect Marie Curie, Nobel and so on. From studying them, people learn to be industrious, to overcome their difficulties, and to work for the progress of human. Under this situation, the humanities do impact the sciences. Therefore, the sciences and the humanities are able to interact each other.
In addition, the humanities and the social sciences interact each other to improve them together. Though the humanities and the social sciences are different with each other, but in some situations they do have effects on one another. In order to understand the gist of the statement, it is necessary to see an example. The Renaissance, which took place in the Middle Age in Europe, can prove that the humanities and the social sciences work together. The purpose of Renaissance was to free people's minds from the religion and through it humanities and the social sciences made a great progress. In Renaissance many famous artistic works were created, which reflected the demand that human should not be restrained by the religion. Art is one of the most important parts of the humanities. Many authors in the Italy, Germany, France, England, and other countries created a large number of masterpieces. They appealed that people should not be restricted by the domain of kings and religions. These works have large influence on the thinks in the French Revolution. In the French Revolution, some people proposed many meaningful ideas, such as the equality in the front of law, the power separating into three parts, and so on. They said that these opinions are thought by the inspiration of the works created in Renaissance. Consequently, the humanities and the social science do act together.
Moreover, the sciences contact with the social sciences in some fields. Economy is an important content of the social sciences. In the past, people usually analyzed the situation of economy on their own assumptions without any mathematical methods. In the modern society, many economists propose their theories through developing mathematical models. They use a large deal of the mathematical knowledge. For example, when John Maynard Keynes made his economic theory to public, he did base on the computation rather than on unfounded assumption. So it is clear to see that in the field of the social sciences, the sciences play an important role. At the meantime, the problems of the social sciences improve the development of the sciences. Now, many new questions are put forward and need the help of the sciences, so many scientists propose their own opinions and new theories. Under this situation, the sciences develop together with the social sciences. Thus, the sciences and the social sciences interact each other.
To sum up, although the assumptions and habits of thinking of these three disciplines are a little different, the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences can interact with each other. Through the interaction, they improve themselves and other fields in the university community.
个人看法:the sciences:自然科学
the humanities:人文科学
the social sciences:社会科学
interact:两两之间的相互作用影响,但我只说了一个对另一个的作用,应该说两个方面,但是由于时间和例子的限制,没能说清楚,
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