John de Fazio's full-size urinal with a Santa Claus head molded into its interior makes a bold statement about waste and consumerism, but too many other works are given over to more generalized forms of humanist image making, with tendencies to crafty illustration.
Instead, so this interpretation declares, he is just a social commentator (or some other form of critical humanist) (Garland 1990).
La Chute reveals a preoccupation with Christian symbolism and contains an ironical and witty exposure of the more complacent forms of secular humanist morality.
As a supporter of the ancient status of the knightly order (Ritterstand), Ulrich looked back to the Middle Ages, but, as a writer, he looked forward, employing the new literary forms of the humanists in biting Latin dialogues, satirizing the pretensions of princes, the papacy, Scholasticism, and obscurantism.
The so-called "neutral" state is, in reality, the attempt to impose an ideology – an individualist, humanist form of thinking.
Both Eastwood pictures are masterpieces of humanist cinema, forming a magnificent diptych.
In place of the medieval ideal of a life of penance as the highest and noblest form of human activity, the humanists looked to the struggle of creation and the attempt to exert mastery over nature.
"The form of opposition from fundamentalist humanists, and fundamentalist naturalists – that we should make no change to nature [or] to human beings – is directly contrary to the nature of human beings, because we are the species that goes beyond our limitations," counters Kurzweil.
There is an unfortunate history of humanist movements co-opting the forms of religion.
In the closing years of the century, Michel de Montaigne continued his predecessors' exploration of the newly discovered realms of body and mind and of the delights of humanist learning and language, but he employed a very different tone and form.
