下面是我早前回覆一位朋友的留言，我把內容公開在這裡，和各位分享。(可參考我早前類似看法：http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/article?mid=1856, and http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/searchblog_art?p=%E9%9F%8B%E4%BC%AF&my=1)
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謝謝。這都是一些個人雜感，並沒有好好整理和深思熟慮就寫下來的想法。
平日處理地區事務，很少會討論這樣我以前很喜歡思考的大題目，現在寫起來也生疏了。
我相信亞理士多德的看法：政治裡最重要的是prudence，這字比較難譯為中文，大意是明智慎重和成熟的判斷力；此外，政治涉及權力，而權力的本質，又有其"邪惡"的一面，故我又經常想起韋伯所指的：從政是與魔鬼鬥爭的事業。這裡講的魔鬼，既指敵人，又指自己內心的權力和名譽慾望等。
政界外的人，尤以學界和宗教界人，對政界的批評往往指上述第二點而言：其實，那樣的內心魔鬼，哪裡不存在呢？只是，政治乃眾人之事，大家的要求和批評更嚴苛，這不僅是應有之義，更是自由社會之所以自由的特徵。
從反面而言，從政者被視為救世主，或被視為高高在上不容被批評的社會和國家，往往是政治最不清明的地方。
不贅，以後有機會詳談。
It's an extract of my reply to a friend's message on this blog. I post it at here to share with you.
The main theme of my reply is that I believe, as Aristotle claimed, that "prudence" is the most important quality of a politician(a king or ruler in ancient time); but there's another evil side of the nature of power. It's why I believe Max Weber that politics is a vocation meant to be struggling with evils.
There are two folds by saying "evils", one is the political enemy, and the other is the evil inside ourselves: what we desire for power and fame is deeply rooted in our human nature, and such desires are evils if we chase after them only, but not aim at public interests and justice.
You could know more about my view at :http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/article?mid=1856, and http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/searchblog_art?p=%E9%9F%8B%E4%BC%AF&my=1
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