To some degree, Aristotle refuses to play the

在某种程度上亚里士多德对
methodologist's game.

方法论家的方法论抗拒
In a well-known passage from the Ethics,

在《伦理学》中有非常著名的一段话
he says that our discussion will be adequate if it achieves clarity

如果科目的范围内表达的足够的清楚明了
within the limits of its subject.

那么我们的讨论将是充足的
If it achieves clarity within the limits of its subject.

如果科目的范围内是足够的清楚
In other words, he seems to be saying it is wrong to

换句话说他似乎在告诉我们
demand methodological purity in a subject like politics where there is

将政治学这样多样的与不可预测的科目
always great variety and unpredictability.

按照方法论的模式是错误的
It is the mark, he says, of an educated person,

这是受过教育的人的标记
presumably a liberally educated person, not to demand more precision

大概受过自由教育的人不会比主旨
than the subject matter allows.

要求之外需要更多的精准