Discipline - Humanistic

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

: Despite not being a science, it remains a "discipline" that requires clarity, reasoned argument, and "getting it right". humanistic discipline

: It must attend to history—specifically the "historical activity of understanding where [our ideas] came from"—because these ideas are contingent and have evolved over time. According to Williams and other scholars like Erwin

: It maintains direct contact with the actual human problems that animate the field in the first place, rather than retreating into purely technical or abstract puzzles. humanistic discipline