The article consists of considerations around the importance of the humanities in shaping research issues in security sciences. The text confirms the identity of the interests of the humanities with the social sciences, which concern the general reflection related to contemporary civilization changes and transformations in the standard of human life, progress in sciences and the development of technologies for existence. In the approach to issues relating to the development of the humanities and social knowledge, there is a dissonance at the junction of changes in the so-called technological awareness and moral reflection on scientific and technological progress in general. And although the presented configurations of combining specialist (applied) knowledge with general knowledge (basic sciences) have an impact on the contemporary profiling of academic education, the same is not confirmed by the potential of humanistic (and social) education. Thus, in shaping specific specialists who are to be both good people and professionals who transform their sensitivity into a successful career, the participation of the humanities is limited. And despite the fact that at the level of the declaration, there is a need for convergence of the humanities, security and technology, the extent of their respect for them differs in terms of financial support. And this is what seems to be significant at all for respecting the individual basic and applied disciplines. It turns out that the primacy of applied sciences over basic sciences is not a function of different subjects of interest and different methodology, but results from economic benefits. Thus, the advantage of technocracy over humanization of the human environment - at least at the level of the importance of research - remains, and security in theory remains a nice hypothesis, and in practice a necessity.