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1.Zon
[transliterated as zon] includes all living beings,
men, animals and Gods.
Some common mistakes even by famous philosophers:
A. Giorgio Agamben in Homo Sacer argues that Aristotle
conceives of human animal life this sense (zo), and
distinguishes it from mans political and ethical life (bios).
Agamben interprets (zo), as simple natural life [la
semplice vita naturale] and explains that this kind of life
mere living was excluded from the polis and confined to
the oikos or household, which was a sphere concerned
exclusively with reproduction [riproduzione] and
subsistence [sussistenza]. This is the meaning he
subsequently assigns to bare life [la nuda vita].
2. Politikon
It is commonly claimed that Aristotle define the human
beings as a Zon Politikon.
Lets take some famous examples.
A. Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality vol. III, p. 188
Ever since Aristotle defined man as a political animal
modern man is an animal whose politics calls his
existence as a living being into question.
B.
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