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IN ANCIENT ROME HOMO SACER ACCORDING TO AGAMBEN . There is, he thinks, a paradox: It is only because of the law that society can recognize the individual as ''homo sacer'', and so the law that mandates the exclusion is also what gives the individual an identity. Agamben holds that life exists in two capacities. One is natural biological life (Greek: ''Zoë'') and the other is political life (Greek: ''bios''). The effect of ''homo sacer'' is, he says, a schism of one's biological and political lives. As "bare life", the ''homo sacer'' finds himself submitted to the Sovereign 's State Of Exception , and, though he has biological life, it has no political significance. Agamben says that the states of homo sacer, political Refugee s, those persecuted in the Holocaust , and the " Enemy Combatant s" imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay and other sites are similar. As support for this, he mentions that the Jews were stripped of their citizenship before they were placed in concentration camps. Thus, Agamben argues, "the so-called sacred and Inalienable Rights of man prove to be completely unprotected at the very moment it is no longer possible to characterize them as rights of the Citizens of a state". His thought is that the respect of human rights depend on the guarantee of civil rights, and not the other way around, as argued by the Liberal Natural Rights philosophy. SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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