The Study Of Transference In Slote’s Moral Emotionalism

Slote is the leading figure of emotionalism virtue ethics in modern times,he fully absorbed by Hume’s theory of human nature and the theory of compassion in the moral sentiments,Smith’s groundbreaking inherit the idea of moral psychology hoffman and batson,new Aristotle socialist transformation to the emotionalism,emotionalism in modern times,on the basis of constructing the moral emotionalism is given priority to with empathy.He wants to better combine emotionalist meta-ethics and emotionalist normative ethics through the construction of empathy theory.He believes that empathy is a psychological mechanism and takes empathy as the basic motivation of moral behavior.His moral emotivism can be divided into two categories: meta-ethics and normative ethics.Emotionalism moral judgment has been criticized by rationalism,Slote put forward the concept of a "second order empathy",he put the "heat" interpreted as a form of emotional expression,even if the person produces the feeling of warm or cold,and this is the feeling of "heat" people born,he put the empathy theory into the emotionalism moral judgment,the modern emotionalism has long been criticized the moral concept of moral judgment is a kind of acquired over this proposition and make moral judgments are congenital and objectivity;In the aspect of normative ethics,he believes that empathy provides people with a more reasonable standard of moral evaluation.He concludes his normative virtue ethics as follows: an act that can reflect the conduct of the actor is required by moral obligation,if and only if the act reflects the complete empathic care of the actor.This paper can be roughly divided into three parts: The first part is the evolution process of Slote’s theory of empathy,which mainly elaborates Hume’s "sympathy theory" and Smith’s "sympathy theory",as well as Hoffman’s empathy and moral development and Batson’s empathy-altruism hypothesis in moral psychology.Slote mainly refers to Hume and Hoffman’s theories.Critically inherited and batson Smith’s theory of socialism,and to strengthen their moral feelings of empathy theory thought,is to slaughter after a detailed analysis of the concept of empathy,including the origin of empathy,and slaughter based on this,advances the concrete architecture of empathy thought,and analyze the differences and relationship between empathy and traditional sympathy;The second part is the elaboration of the main process of Slote’s empathy problem.One is the innovation of moral judgment from the traditional emotionalism meta-ethics perspective.It establishes the status of emotionalism moral judgment by criticizing rationalism moral judgment.It innovatively modified and created half of Kripke’s fixed referential theory,which fixed the moral legitimacy and added empathy theory to make its moral judgment innate;The second is to elaborate the complementary relationship between moral obligation and rational moral rules in normative ethics and the corresponding direct relationship between moral obligation and empathic response.Third,through Slote’s concept of justice and Rawls’ s Theory of Justice,it expounds Slote’s holistic evaluation of justice by using empathy,the embodiment of justice in the distribution of wealth and political power,and some beautiful assumptions of applying empathy to social distribution justice.The fourth part is a holistic evaluation of Slote’s empathy,which includes establishing the objectivity of moral judgment,clarifying the altruistic characteristics of moral obligation,and further studying Slote’s empathy theory on a certain basis is conducive to the development of traditional Chinese Confucian ethics.At the same time,there are more or less theoretical loopholes.including the fuzzy scope of empathy,inappropriate marginalization of empathy and the absolutization of altruistic empathy.