the protection of society and its laws,

的被动受惠者
but is one who takes a share in shaping the laws

而是那个能参与修订律法
and who participates in political rule and deliberation.

能参与政治规则和决策的人
Aristotle even notes, you probably observe, that his

亚里士多德这么写过你们可能发现了
definition of the citizen, he says, is most appropriate to

他所说的公民定义更适用于
citizens of democracy, where in his famous formulation

民主公民在他著名的分配下
everyone knows how to rule and be ruled in turn.

人人知道应怎样统治应怎样轮流统治
It is this reflection and the character of the citizen that leads

这种对公民特质的反思导致
him to wonder whether the good citizen and the good human being are

他开始怀疑一个好公民和一个好人是否
one and the same.

能够统一
Can a person be both, as it were, a good man,

一个人能够同时是一个好人
a good person and a good citizen?

拥有高尚人格同时又是一个好公民吗