Abstract
The concept of potency has, in the occidental philosophy, a long history and, at least from Aristotle, it occupies a central place of it. In this article, Giorgio Agamben shows us how Aristotle looked for exhaustingly to collate with the ambiguities and the aporias of his theory of the potency. The figure of the potency that he extracts of this reading compels us to not only rethink the relation between the potency and the act, between possible and real, but the understanding of the alive being is all that must be revoked in question, if is truth that the life must be thought as a potency that incessantly exceeds its forms and its accomplishments
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