人文学科的现实意义与经济价值

On Contemporary Humanities: Practical Significance and Economic Values

本文重点论述了近三年来,人文学科在世界范围内所发生的两个重大事件——日本关停并转人文学科和阿拉伯世界重建人文学科,详述了它们的前因后果;同时,以哈佛大学校友回访演讲和哈佛校长在西点军校的演讲为例,深入探讨了人文学科在当今世界的意义,并以2014年美国一项权威数据报告为依据,重点阐述了人文学科的经济价值,以此消除人们对人文学科是否具有实用价值所持有的一种误解,进而倡导人们要从长远角度去看待人文学科的现实意义与价值。

This paper intends to explore the practical significance and economic values of the Humanities in contemporary world.Firstly it focuses on the two major events in the Humanities(since June 2015),i.e.,the halt of the Humanities in Japan and their revival in Arab world,detailing their causes and effects;Secondly it discusses by taking the Conan O'Brien's talk at Harvard and Harvard University President's speech at the West Point for examples the significance of the Humanities nowadays.Thirdly the paper explicitly elaborates the economic values of the Humanities on the basis of an authoritative report of the United States,expecting the elimination of the misconception of the practical values of the Humanities.The paper finally advocates to look at the practical significance and values of the Humanities from a long-term perspective.