"Living animal with the additional capacity for political existence"
The word 'life' in ancient Greek has two meanings 'zoe'(the simple fact of the all living being) and 'bios'(the way of living to an individual or a group).
Bios was previously used more preferable in the political context, then the word 'zoe'
came in to play in the sphere of modernity.
In the sovereign sphere, 'Homo Sacer' is a 'bare life' who can be killed and yet not be able to called 'sacreficed' and furthermore no accuses for the one who permitted that committing homocide.
With sovereignty in its territory, the line has been drawn to exclude the outsider and include the insider as a political element. Because man is a living being that comes with language which separate himself to his bare life and in the same time maintain himself in an inclusive exclusion which lies in the indistictive zone as both an object and a subject of political power.
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