For Aristotle the point and purpose of political science is

亚里士多德认为政治科学的要点和目的是
to mediate the causes of faction,

调解派系斗争目标
to help causes of faction that lead to revolution and civil war.

帮助缓解会导致革命或内战的派系目标
Aristotle's statesman,

亚里士多德意义上的政治家
Aristotle's statecraft,

亚里士多德的治国本领
his political science, is a form of political mediation,

他的政治科学都是某种政治斡旋形式
how to bring peace to conflict ridden situations.

如何将和平带入冲突的局势之中
It is always surprising to me

对我来说十分惊讶的是
that many people think that Aristotle

很多人认为亚里士多德
ignored or has no real theory of political conflict

忽略或是没有真正的政治冲突理论
when it seems to me conflict

但在我看来冲突
is built in to the very structure of his understanding of a regime.

是理解他的政体理论机构的基础