艰辛的民主之路——读《雅典政制》有感

A Hard Road to Democracy——A Sense of Reading the Political System of Athens

《雅典政制》是亚里士多德唯一一部存世的古希腊城邦研究著作,讲述了雅典城邦制度的发展情况,细致梳理了雅典民主的诞生和发展历程,对我们认识和研究雅典民主有重要帮助。研读这本书我们可以得知雅典民主制度的发展并不是一蹴而就,也不是一帆风顺的,它是一波又一波螺旋上升的演变过程,并且每一波都是有所反复,但进而推向更高的民主程度。

The Athenian Constitution is Aristotle's only surviving ancient Greek polis research works,tells the story of the Athenian polis system development,carefully combed the democratic Athens birth and development process,give us great help to know and study of Athenian democracy. We can learn that the development of the democratic system of Athens is not an overnight,it is not plain sailing,it is the evolution of a wave of spiral,and each wave is to be repeated,but to a higher degree of democracy.