On “decision” in Aristotele´s prudence (An introduction to the animal and human problem)

Abstract

This essay is based on the work of the italian philosopher, G. Agamben´s works, and argues that the Aristotele´s figure of prudence constitutes the place of sovereignity and, in itself, it may have a strictly biopolitical status, because it “produces” the “humanity” of the human being, as zoon politikon (zoon lógon ekhon). So, the present text, shows an aporia present inside the occidental politics and its concept of justice which, located in the Aristotele´s prudence –as the place of sovereigns “decision”- has to produce the “humanity” of the human beings, isolating, at the same time, something like a naked life.