On The Adam Smith's The Theory Of Moral Sentiments Of The General Guidelines For Moral Judgment

In the Enlighten, Adam smith (1723—1790) is the greatest economist and ethics of Scotland. Form cradle to the grave, Adam Smith engaged in his life to learn the economics and the ethics, and left two representatives of his, one is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (WN), and another is The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) In the TMS, Adam Smith discussed that a self-interest person pass to sympathy and by our imaginative, sympathy as a kind of natural power consistent the moral foundation of human being. At this foundation by which we approve or disapprove is a fellow-feelings that corresponded with "impartial spectator" which arises from all of our common sense, and when we judged our action, the "impartial spectators" made us out of ourselves, get out our own emotions, proceeding an impartial or objectivity procedures to judge others and ours motive and behavior. "Impartial spectator" have its ability to making human nature break away his self-interest, by a moral standards that a society should approved to measure his behavior .Providing moral a social agreement and becoming a foundation of human conscience. In TMS, Adam Smith employed the "inhabitant of the breast" to explain our conscience. Although we all naturally interested in ourselves than others, a voice of "inhabitant of the breast" making us view others and ours behavior from the place and with the eyes of a third party, according this way, we place our self-interest aside from each other, which is a moral sentiment to make a economic man constructing an altruistic social, in this case, everyone in this group would become a moral man. Therefore, between a self-benefit and a social-benefit they often interact with each other, and at the every aspect of our life, unintentionally practicing the moral standards in everyone's heart.