Adam Smith's "sympathy" Ethics And Contemporary Values

Since China carry out the market economic system,material products is more and more rich,people ' s living standard has improved,but,with the development of the market economy,there are associated with the deterioration of moral status,face the rapid development of maret economy,we are enjoying its abundant material products,we should not only pay attention to the improvement of material life,but also pay attention to the improvement of spiritual civilization. Adam Smith aimed at the happy life of citizens,emphasize to enhance people's compassion and sense of responsibility,these can offer some ideas and reference to today's moral construction of our countryAdam Smith's sympathy thought refers to not only sympathy the suffering people,but also sympathy the happy people, largely Smith's sympathy thought refers to by association,in other's position,and achieve emotional resonance. Smith's sympathy ideas start from everyone's compassion,by control the selfish emotion in appropriate range,in order to obtain recognition and approval by impartial spectator, and establish a moral quality,moral character formation is also how the compassion though is possible.but if a person only control the behavior in appropriate range,at best,it is just a right behavior,and have no moral value,in order to make it has a moral value,we should rise it to the height of virtue.Smith thinks that virtue is under the action of compassion,control the excessive self-love,and play the feelings of love, Smith's sympathy theory is the basis of his virtue theory, Smith's virtue theory is the sublimation of his sympathy theory.There is no doubt that people are all pursuit the happiness life,the happiness life,in addition to the material is not scare,especially refers to a kind of ethical value life. Smith explained and anayzed the compassion in human nature,in order to let people realize through cultivating this kind of moral emotion,can promote the social moral standards,therefore research and learning Adam Smith's sympathy ethics,can provide some enlightenment to our country citizen moral construction,namely the citizen moral construction must be in order to enhance peope's moral rationality,strengthen people's moral emotions and identity as a starting point,so as to improve people's moral personality,enhance the level of social morality.