解读：亚里士多德的“中产阶级”政体

亚里士多德构建的古希腊城邦“中产阶级”政体,是依其政治学的理想主义而设计;而其所推崇“中产阶级”的理性、中庸等品性观念,也是为制度安排的一种理论铺垫。实际上,亚氏的“中产阶级”政体不仅是主观性产物,带有先验性和空想性,而且还具有极强的阶级性。故以亚氏的中产阶级理论来引经据典,未必适合对当代中产阶级的价值判断。

An Analysis of Aristotle's "Middle-Class" Government

While Aristotle's "middle-class" government of ancient Greek city-state derivates from his idealist design of politics,his highly praised concepts of the "middle class" such as reason and mean also serves as a theoretical foil for the establishment of the system.In fact,this "middle-class" government is not only a subjective product characteristic of apriority and utopianism,but also has extreme strong class-consciousness.Thus it is not proper for applying his "middle-class" theory to the value judgment of current middle class.