City-state,regime,and education:The trinity structure of Aristotle's Politics
Without considering the original form and other factors,but only starting from the analysis of the existing texts,Aristotle's Politics can be divided into three thesis units.Volumes Ⅰ-Ⅱ are the first unit,with its thesis being city-state;Volumes Ⅲ-Ⅵ are the second unit,with its thesis being regime;and Volumes Ⅶ-Ⅷ are the third unit,with its thesis being education.These three theses are interrelated and reflective,which can be called"Trinity"structure:in the first unit,the city-state is equal to the regime;in the second unit,the regime determines the city-state;in the third unit,education achieves the best city-state and the best regime.Education is the culmination of the whole book of Politics,the core of the tradition of ancient Greek political civilization,and what Werner Jäger calls"the ideal of ancient Greek culture".This understanding can solve some difficult problems in the academic history.
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