摘要
在亚里士多德伦理学中,中道不仅指事物的中间性存在状态,更指人之情感与实践的中间性原则。它不但是一种知识,也是一种技术,还是一种艺术。亚氏的中道思想既是一种世界观,又是一种方法论,更是一种审美观。作为伦理德性的成就与表征,中道构成人之伦理德性的核心原则,也集中体现出亚氏伦理学的经验主义、现实主义和理性主义基本特质。
In Aristotle＇s ethics,the mean indicates not only a middle state of things,but also a middle principle for human＇s sensibilities and practice.It is a kind of knowledge,a sort of technology,and also an art.Aristotle＇s thoughts of mean represents not only a world view,but also a methodology.Furthermore, it is an aesthetic view.The mean brings on and characterizes the moral virtues,it functions as a nuclear principle of the latter.Moreover,the mean exhibits the elementary characters of Aristolte＇s ethics as empiricism,realism,and rationalism.
