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Noun- The study of the totality of attributes which distinguish man from other beings.

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  • Believing that a classical training alone could form a perfect man, the Humanists so called themselves in opposition to the Scholastics, and adopted the term humaniora...
  • This leads to a certain defensiveness from the studies we in Norway would call "humaniora", that is the arts and to a certain extent philosphy, to counter the...
  • When you get to high school, pick biology and study that afterwards, in stead of humaniora.
  • En ting er jeres primitive og forsimplede fremstilling af humaniora, som noget der ikke kræver kreativitet - hvad værre er, er at jeres påstand simpelthen er falsk.
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