{"id":2305,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/the-construction-of-the-human-in-marcus-tullius-ciceros-thought-and-its-heideggerian-rejoinder\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-construction-of-the-human-in-marcus-tullius-ciceros-thought-and-its-heideggerian-rejoinder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/12\/the-construction-of-the-human-in-marcus-tullius-ciceros-thought-and-its-heideggerian-rejoinder-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The construction of the \u2018human\u2019 in Marcus Tullius Cicero\u2019s thought and its Heideggerian rejoinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progressively foregrounded precisely in its lack of coming to presence is the operation by which an individual\u2019s human or non-human, inhuman, status is delineated. It is thus that the margin of delineation by which the propriety of a human being\u2019s humanity is decided becomes questionable and prompts further reflection. Receiving its impetus from Martin Heidegger\u2019s Letter on \u2018Humanism\u2019, the following essay shall take the \u2018human\u2019 as galvanized in the thought of Marcus Tullius Cicero as its object, foremost reflecting on the human is discursively constituted in the complementary texts De Republica and De Legibus. This essay thus contends that Cicero\u2019s thought constitutes the exemplary object of the critique Heidegger\u2019s letter poses, and as such provides an essential foil to Heidegger&#8217;s proposal as to how the notion of \u03bd\u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 (nomos) should be uptaken in light of the truth of being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humphrey Jordan, 2021, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,22,128],"tags":[34,270,28],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-311","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-heidegger","tag-humanity","tag-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}