The Research Of Moral Sense In Hume’s Moral Philosophy

Moral sense is the core concept of the 18 th century the theory of moral sentiments, as important concept of Hume’s moral philosophy. The connotation of Moral sense With the evolution theory of morality is constantly changing, it is the turning point that the interpretation of Hume’s Moral sense content changes. But Hume did not make this clear definition of the meaning of the concept, at present, the concept of academic Hume’s Moral sense connotation remains controversial.By 1, "Human Nature," "moral principle study" for text analysis, study morality from moral philosophy in the context of Hume; 2, Hume’s Moral sense and Shaftesbury and Hutcheson’s Moral sense approach to solve the comparison to clarify Moral sense of Hume’s moral philosophy and to clarify the meaning and significance of Hume’s theory of changing its original meaning of this concept of these two issues.Essay structure is divided into three parts: The first part introduces the definition of the theoretical background of the concept of morality and Hume produced before school this concept of morality; the second part of the analysis of Hume’s moral theory, identify the Moral sense in Hume’s theory inherent meaning and context specific theory concerned the rest. Here it comes to the basic concepts of Hume rational, emotional, etc. as well as to clarify the special sense of joy and compassion theory; third part discusses the concept of morality Hume change its theoretical significance, and the distinction between domestic academic theory of morality and emotion doctrine of confusion.