Is Humanities In Decline ?

Humanity is a term having multiple meanings, ranging from a virtue linked with altruism to a discipline of systematic studies. In one sense, it refers to ethics, love, compassion, kind feelings, fairness and justice in attitudes towards all human beings. In another sense, it refers to the entire human race. It is a word for the qualities that make us human as opposed to irrational animals, with such ability as to be creative and critical, not simply be a robot machine or an alien being existing in a different world from that of humans. This article, however, focuses on humanities, a collective discipline of studies that supposedly inculcate the sense of humanity in all humans that would make all citizens imbued with advanced civilization and culture.