Modern civility treats the citizen as someone made, not born, through overcoming nature.

Evidence

Emerging through such a contrast is a peculiar form of civility –and with it modern citizenship – civility as a work in progress: the Aristotelian political animal is replaced, as an anthropological premise, by the civilized man, the man who must go beyond his own nature to become a civil person, a citizen. The natural man – the man in the state of nature – by contrast, is deCDcient because he fails to overcome his own nature. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 66

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s research on solidarity through shared projects: Martens frames citizenship here as self-overcoming, which contrasts with convivial/Gilroy’s unplanned coming-together. — connects to: Nature’s qualities are historical, not fixed, under human mastery — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 825; Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617; Human society is a historical reality that appropriates nature rather than submitting to it — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 142 (+2 more)

Related

• Nature’s qualities are historical, not fixed, under human mastery (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Nature’s qualities are historical, not fixed, under human mastery #corroborates (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 825
• Human society is a historical reality that appropriates nature rather than submitting to it #corroborates (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 142
• Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. #corroborates (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617
• Individual identity resists destruction because it depends on nature beyond the will #contradicts (0.75)
• Citizenship and humanity, though linked, are not the same status #qualifies (0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 699