学术资讯｜全球正义工作坊第五十一讲：对家国同构的批评性反思——亚里士多德论家庭、教育与政治统治

Global Justice Workshop (51st)

Organizer

Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)

Sun Yat-sen University

Topic

Against Isomorphic Extension from Family to Polis: 

Aristotle on Family, Education, and Political Rule

Speaker

Mengxiao HUANG

Associate Professor

School of Public Administration

Sichuan University

Moderator

Anna BECKER

Professor

Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas

University of Aarhus

Time

July 9th，2026

20: 00—22: 00

VOOV

629-530-218

ABSTRACT

This chapter challenges a dominant strand of contemporary Confucian political ethics that treats civic and political ideals as an extension of moral virtues cultivated within the family. Drawing on Aristotle’s distinction between moral virtue formed in the household and civic virtue shaped through political rule, it argues that moral dispositions grounded primarily in family feeling cannot be automatically conferred as publicly approvable civilities. For such familial characteristics to be appropriate to political rule among free and equal citizens, institutional mediation and regulation are required to render them publicly justifiable. More specifically, the chapter proceeds in three steps. First, by analyzing Aristotle’s account of marital rule as distinct from paternal rule within the household, it shows that familial relationships cannot, by themselves, be identified with political rule. Second, by examining Aristotle’s account of child education—conceived as oriented toward the politeia and treated as a public concern—it argues that the family’s role in cultivating deliberative capacity is pedagogical and transitional, rather than already proto-political or fully political in itself. Finally, by juxtaposing Aristotle’s treatment of education as a public affair with his insistence on the distinction between moral cultivation in the family and civic virtue exercised through political rule, the chapter maintains that, without institutional regulation, family feeling—even as the primary source of moral formation—cannot serve as a sufficient foundation for a healthy democratic civility.

全球正义工作坊第（51）讲

主办

中山大学哲学系（珠海）

主题

对家国同构的批评性反思

——亚里士多德论家庭、教育与政治统治

主讲

黄梦晓

四川大学公共管理学院，副教授

主持

Anna BECKER

奥胡斯大学哲学与思想史系，教授

时间

2026年7月9日

20: 00—22: 00

腾讯会议

629-530-218

摘要

当代儒家政治伦理中存在一种具有代表性的理论取向，即将家庭中通过亲情与伦理关系所培育的道德德性，直接外推为公民生活乃至政治秩序的规范基础。借助亚里士多德对家庭与城邦之区分，尤其是其对家庭中的道德养成与政治统治中公民德性的区分，本文指出以家庭情感为主要来源的道德倾向，并不能自动转化为具有公共可辩护性的公民性。若此类家庭德性要适用于自由且平等公民之间的政治统治，必须经过法律、教育与制度安排的调节和规制，方能获得公共正当性。具体而言，第一，通过分析亚里士多德对家庭内部“夫妻统治”与“父权统治”的区分，表明家庭关系本身并不能与“政治统治”直接等同；第二，通过考察亚里士多德关于儿童教育的论述，尤其是其将教育理解为指向政体并具有公共属性的制度安排，论证家庭在培育审议能力方面的功能具有教育性与过渡性，而非本身即具有政治性；第三，通过综合分析亚里士多德关于教育公共性质的论述及其对家庭道德养成与政治统治中公民德性实践之间区分的强调，本文指出若缺乏制度性规制，家庭情感即便作为道德养成的重要来源，也不足以构成健康民主公民性的规范基础。

来源｜哲珠新媒体

文稿｜杜陈

编辑｜黄万豪

初审｜韩　珩

审核｜卢　毅

审核发布｜屈琼斐