亚里士多德扬弃了以往把人理解为感性存在物的片面性 ,提出“人是理性的动物”这一著名的哲学命题 ,从而奠定了 2 0 0 0多年理性主义的主流。本文通过对这一命题的辨析 ,揭示出理解人的本质之关键就在于 :人是理性的与非理性的对立统一体。在理性和非理性之间发展一种辩证的互补关系 ,对于把握人这个永恒的斯芬克司之迷具有重要的理论意义和现实意义 Aristotle abandoned the one-sidedness of understanding man as a perceptual object in the past and proposed the famous philosophical proposition that “man is a rational animal”, which laid the mainstream of more than 200 years of rationalism. Through the analysis of this proposition, this article reveals that the key to understanding the nature of man lies in the fact that man is a rational and irrational antagonistic unity. The development of a dialectical complementarity between rational and irrational is of great theoretical and practical significance for grasping people as the everlasting Sphinx fan