When the movie ends, we realize we've seen Woody Allen's version of "La Strada".... Fellini's movie has its universal-humanist message, but Woody's tones are different — more idiosyncratic, less official, less reassuring.
The likelihood is, however, that the eight (at least) terrorist who died in Friday's outrage were French born and educated in the humanist, universal values of the French Republic.
Similarly Levent Demirkale, Selam's director, stresses that he was motivated by bigger things than his own religion: "What really affected us were the humanist universal values, such as cooperation of different religions and beliefs, living for other people's happiness, loving human beings, and making sacrifices for others".
Michele is a humanist, a universal spirit, too interested in too many things to become a monomaniac.
Ibn Ezra's astrology, like his philosophy overall, is humanist and universal, not Jewish and particularist.
As Manguel ruefully observes, the 'multimedia library' of the web inverts and potentially erases the universal library of which Renaissance humanists dreamed.
The bridge might have well been named after Rumi, the great Sufi thinker who spread the teaching of universal tolerance from Anatolia, or any other Islamic humanist.
More recently, Stirner has been identified as a nascent poststructuralist (linked not least with Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)), rejectheg the idea of a universal human nature, employing a genealogical critique of humanist discourses of power and identity, and opposing various forms of state-centric thought.
Despite the enduring humanist belief in and longing for the concept of a universal humanity that connects us across national and cultural divides, I have come to the realization that cultural and economic differences shape not only people's lifestyles but also their inner thoughts, desires, and perspectives of the world.
Humanist principles incline the wide-eyed chancellor to a treaty of universal peace bound by the "principle of collective security".
