论亚里士多德的中道思想

亚里士多德的中道思想是在继承古希腊传统中道思想和结合当时现实社会状况的基础上 ,经过理论论证的系统化的学说 ,它对当时及后世都产生了广泛影响。文章从该思想的历史溯源、含义及其在城邦政治中的体现三方面进行论述 ,这对于把握以“中道”为核心的亚里士多德的伦理思想体系和理解西方社会生活的价值标准具有重要的意义。

On Aristotle's Golden Mean Thought

Based on the succession of ancient Greek traditional Golden Mean thought and the combination with that time's social conditions, through his systematization of theoretical justifications, Aristotle developed his thought of the Golden Mean, which exhibited wide-ranging impacts on that time and ever since. This article expounds the thought's historical background, its implications and its inflections in city-state politics, which is conducive to grasp Aristotle's ethical thought system, centered by the Golden Mean, and to comprehend the value standard of western social life.