Word: humanisme
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But the movie's ultimate revelation is disappointing and frankly pretty cheesy, circling (without landing on) a vaguely "spiritual" resolution of Ellie's quest. On an intellectual level, it's no resolution at all but rather a sop of vacuous humanism that teaches Ellie nothing except the value of patience...
"To know a language and a culture different from one's own is a fundamental requirement of humanism itself," said Gregory Nagy, chair of the classics department. "Quantitative Reasoning must be formally counter-balanced with a linguistic reasoning requirement."
In his speech, titled "Negritude: The Poet as Mediator and Accuser," Soyinka discussed "negritute," which he defined as "race-specific African humanism."
In fact, Cynicism is not a bad morality for today's man. It has a slapstick quality to it that goes well with the silly po-mo late culture we seem to be stuck in. To be heard these days one needs to act broadly, and we cannot get by...
The Melville of the train wreck blamed progress itself. And so, come to think of it, did Melville's possible disciple in this line of thinking, the Unabomber, who was a moral train wreck in his own right. The complaint seems a little simple. It can appeal to a flintstone...