The Study On Several Problems Of Aristotle's View Of Society And History

Aristotle is the first figure just like "cyclopaedia". Not only did he develop the former philosophical conception created by the philosopher before his era and establish an enormous philosophy but deepened the former philosophers' attitude of social history as well. It came into the most systemic theory of social history. His 《Politics》 was the one that discussed the social history in systematic. In understanding Aristole's conception, many scholars in our country analyzed it from philosophy, ethnics, politics and discussed his theory of the attitude of social history. A number of harvests have been achieved and formed the systemic theory concerning the Aristole's conception of social history. In these aspects,《European conception of social history--from ancient Greece to Marx>》written by Heqiyuan is the representation. In spite of mature theory proposed by domestic scholars, we can find lots of problems we do still need to discuss further in the Aristotle's conception of social history. Such as, is there lack of history sense of development in Aristotle's conception of social history? Aristotle's statement on humanism neglected the character of naturalism; Aristotle's conception of social history is a system info that contains a great deal of inconsistency.This essay discussed the detail on Aristole's conception of social history from the former issues. There are three parts:In the first part, from different aspects analyzed if there is lack of the sense of history development in Aristole's conception of social history and got a conclusion that the sense of history development existed in Aristotle's conception.In second part, I analyzed the internal inconsistency in Aristotle's conception of social history and illuminated the internal inconsistency. The conclusion was that Aristole found the developing orientation in social history but it is halfway.In the third part, some domestic scholars believed that Aritotle's humanity theory doubted the rationalistic humanity theory and moral humanity theory. They also thought there are some naturalistic characters in Aristotle's humanity theory. However, Aristotle's humanity theory should be the unity of the rationalism, moralistic and naturalistic humanity principle.