What is it for?

是为什么而存在
What is he attempting to do?

他尝试在做什么
Already you could say to ask this question is to state a claim.

当你问这个问题时其实你在陈述一个声明
Does Aristotle have a political science, a science of politics?

亚里士多德在描述政治这方面的学科吗
Again, if so, what is it about?

如果是那么是关于什么的
To begin to answer this question, you might say even begin to think

假如要回答这个问题我们需要以
about it in the right way, requires that we stand back from

另一个方面去思考需要我们抛开
Aristotle's text for a while and ask some fundamental questions about it.

他的课本来提出一些最基本的问题
What does Aristotle mean by the political?

亚里士多德所说的政治意思是什么
What is the goal or purpose of the study of politics,

研究政治的目的何在
and what is distinctive about Aristotle's approach to the study of

还有亚里士多德研究政治学的方法
political things?

有什么与众不同