The Interests Of The Adam Smith Thought

Adam Smith was not only a master of economy, but also a palmary ethicist。His ethic theory was very in abundance, thereinto, the interesting of ethic theory was a main matter. Smith's interesting thoughts was based in humanness theory, from the point of view of Smith, man was a creature of tending towards interesting and avoiding harm ,and man was subject to egoism,all activity in community was related to egoism. Smith put forward to sympathy how to control egoism and he thought that man was egoism in nature and in leading to self-respect to in pursuit of self-interesting, but self-respect is going with sympathy. Although in pursuit of interesting-self was motivation of human conduct, sympathy was core in moral judgment.Smith's interesting theory is composed of four parts. First, self-interesting is inartificial, legitimate impulsion of undertaking economy conduct. No less than Smith words in The Theory of Moral Sentiments,"Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care;"motivation of undertaking economy conduct was in pursuit of self-interesting from egoism. Second, mutual benefit is means in order to achieving self-interesting. From the point of view of Smith, economical man based in egoism of pursuing self-interesting has achieved in favor of others and society simultaneity, thereby has got unification with self-interesting and others-interesting, in the final analysis, self-interesting was motive, others-interesting and mutual benefit was in order to get interesting-self. Third,"an invisible hand"is a bridge from self-interesting to whole society-interesting. In dissertation of egoism, Smith had emphasized on function of an invisible hand. Smith thought that economy conduct from interesting-self was in order to get thriving and prosperous of whole society in guidance with"an invisible hand". Last, competition was harmonized mechanism of interesting. Society by Smith's opened out was a society which everybody has pursued self-interesting, and this was a centrifugal force to society. But, in the Smith's words, society was followed nature system and all things were harmonious and sequence, and which was competition's effect that competition adjusted egoism and prevented from greed.Smith's interesting theory has vital value of theory: first, his interesting theory was an extension and development of foretime interesting theory; second, Smith's interesting theory had opened out relation in economy and morality of capitalism. The localizations of Smith's interesting theory lay in three points: first, it was based on abstract humanness theory; second, it was individualism axiology in guidance; third, it has not solved relations of self-interesting and whole society-interesting in deed. It indicated that Smith's interesting theory had some enlightenment of socialism market economy construct, and we should regard legitimate self-interesting, and harmonize relations of self-interesting and whole society-interesting.