Title: Humanities: History, Methodology, and Classification

Today, the term "humanities" encompasses disciplines such as psychology, sociology, history, linguistics, economics, and more. These fields are also known as ethical sciences, and they offer the possibility of studying humanity scientifically to formulate general principles and then act based on those principles in the pursuit of its goals.
Initially, this distinction allowed for the differentiation between "ethical sciences" and "natural sciences." Despite the fact that sciences such as physiology and anatomy, which focus on the human body, could consider humans as their central subject, they were classified as natural sciences due to their emphasis on humans as physical beings.
The term "ethical sciences" was used throughout the 19th century to evaluate the procedures followed in the "ethical subject." For standardization reasons, this term was eventually abandoned in favor of the term "humanities." This change occurred after the German social philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (1887) formulated and used the term "humanities" in his work "Introduction to the Humanities." He emphasized that the concept of knowledge can generally be divided into two main branches: one referred to as "natural sciences" and the other as "the strange science," which some thinkers also referred to as "Geisteswissenschaften."