The Essence And Meaning Of 'Sympathy' Phenomenon-Searching And Analyzing On Scheler's Sympathy Concept

Sympathy is not only the primary content of Scheler's researching, but also the important link of studying Scheler thoughts which can not be ignored. Scheler's illustration for'sympathy'phenomenon is start from criticizing'Sympathy Ethics', which is the researching results of'sympathy'from Hume, Adam Smith and Schopenhauer. But Scheler thought their research was taking'sympathy'as the highest moral value, and trying to infer all the behaviors with moral value, and these are incorrect. The study of'Sympathy'should analyze its essence and meaning, and deeply analyze the different patterns of concept of'sympathy'. Therefore, Scheler classified'sympathy'phenomenon into for patterns, and these four patterns reflect that in different scenarios the'sympathy'generated from ego and others have different characters and meaning. When it comes to'sympathy', we'll think of the similar feeling phenomenon of'sympathy'in China Philosophy cultural traditions, and it's called'compassion'. However, through analysis we understand that'compassion'is the foundation of creating moral in Chinese Culture and this is really different from the four'sympathy'patterns of Scheler.'Compassion'is more of originality than'Sympathy'. Scheler's 'sympathy'concept has much to do with his researching about interaction subjects. He thinks'sympathy'concept always points to the relationship between ego and others, as for inter-subjectivity problem is the precondition of making'sympathy'possible. In this regard,'empathy'concept needs to be compare and discriminate with'sympathy'. Scheler repudiated the unconsciousness and inner imitation of Lipps's empathy process, and he also repudiated the empathy in phenomenology of Husserl and Edith Stein etc. In some degree, these two feeling phenomenon are different but connected. Scheler's researching about'sympathy'also refers to his recognition of concept of'love'. Besides, Scheler thinks the inter-subjectivity relationships come from the four'sympathy'patterns creating the diverse community form, and different the sense of identification with the universe produced diverse human culture.Thus it can be seen that'sympathy'is a very important point of academic study about Scheler Starting from researching the unique feeling phenomenon of'sympathy', and then analyzing all kinds of feeling phenomenon, and finally come to the discovery and research about'human'.This makes Scheler's academic thoughts abundant and always contains clues and items. As a result of this, about the Scheler's researching on'sympathy'concept, also can be focused on exploring the Scheler's entire academic thoughts values and meaning.