Michael Lebowitz wrote: > Nah, it's got to mean more than that: here's another use from a letter to > S. Meyers, 30 April 1867:
[clip] Ad = to or towards, homin = human being, em = Latin declination for the accusative case. It has a bad connotation in modern English, but in this context, "ad hominem" must mean (IMO) "de te fabula narratur" [the story is about *you*]: It is what concerns *you* *directly* and *immediately*. Related to this, one of Marx's favorite phrases was "nihil humani a me alienum puto" [nothing human is alien to me] or, as Che put it in the letter to his children: "Sobre todo, sean siempre capaces de sentir en lo más hondo cualquier injusticia cometida contra cualquiera en cualquier parte del mundo. Es la cualidad más linda de un revolucionario." [Above all, be always capable of feeling deeply in you any injustice committed against anybody anywhere in the world. That's the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.] Julio
