The Study On The Thought Of Hume Sympathy

Hume moral sympathy theory start from the feelings of person, emphasizes the sensationof person, experience, and points out that the people of a lot of the good emotion is thedominant factor to “should be”, and the man has a natural virtue because of compassion,kindheartedness, and other emotions, but he doesn’t completely abandon the rationality,rationality just plays the role of later setting, and brings these good natural emotions into rules,which are the ethics that people must abide by. Based on differences of ethics thinking, Wemay divide it into the rationalism ethics and emotion principle ethics. Western traditionalethics has two development paths, named by the theory of virtue and happiness theory,although this the two have the different opinions in the concrete viewpoints, but they allfollow this “the essential principle” or the morals thinking mode of naturalism，and relateclosely with the rationalism.To the modern, the rational authority has received all sorts of challenges, Scholars havequestioned, only proceed from the difference between human and animal, humancharacteristics, this essential feature to import of moral judgment is unreasonable, there is anunbridgeable gap between facts and values. Clarify this problem, causing the modern ethics tothe empiricism, the emotion principle transformation. The turning point in creating the birthof Hume and a number of emotionalism ethicists. Hume derived from the emotional sympathy,and sympathy as the medium of the human emotional resonance, and then sympathy willenhance the perception of good and evil moral principles, however, we can see from thediscussion of Hume, his "sympathy" is a synonym for rational. Although the theoreticalconstruction of the Hume’s sympathy thinking is not perfect, but Hume as early systemstalked about compassion for this virtue ethicists, it sympathizes with ethics theory to thegeneration the influence is profound. Positive factors can be extradited to China’s building ofspiritual civilization, this will cure the current people apathy, moral decline and other adversesocial ills have a tremendous positive effect.