细察西方悲剧理论史 ,我们可以发现 ,亚里斯多德的悲剧理论强调故事情节的营构是悲剧的灵魂 ,但并不能因此就断定亚氏是一个结构主义者 ,就与以伦理冲突结构悲剧理论的黑格尔适成相反。实际上 ,在理论的深层 ,无论是悲剧人物的过失论 ,还是悲剧情节的有机整体论 ,抑或悲剧效果的净化说 ,都表现出亚里斯多德的悲剧理论孕含着伦理观念和道德精神的追求。因此 ,亚氏和黑氏虽然一从情节视角展开理论建构 ,一从伦理冲突形成理论框架 ,但其一致处———体现出的伦理实质仍昭然可见 Looking closely at the history of Western tragedy theory, we can see Aristotle’s tragedy theory emphasizes that plot construction is the soul of tragedy, but we can not therefore conclude that Aristotle is a structuralist, Hegel’s theory of the opposite fit. In fact, in the deep of the theory, both the tragedy’s negligence theory and the tragedy’s organic wholeism theory or the purifying effect of the tragedy effect all show Aristotle’s tragedy theory pregnant with ethical concepts and moral spirit pursue. Therefore, although Aristotle’s and Hei’s one start from the point of view of the theory to construct the theory, one from the ethical conflict to form a theoretical framework, but its consistent place --- the ethical substance is still evident