On Adam Smith 's Sympathy

Smith’s sympathy theory is intimate contact with his impartial spectator theory. As Alexander Broadie said. "for Smith, sympathy can’t be separated from specter, because just the specter who have sympathy." sympathy is a bystander to the product of a personal feelings and emotion recognition. Therefore, this article tried to stand in Adam Smith’s "impartial spectator" perspective to elaborate the basic content of Adam Smith said sympathy and its theoretical significance and practical significance. Paper is divided into five parts:The first part expounds the sympathy of the Smith said with onlookers thought origin of the theory. And focus on Hutchison and Hume’s related theory. The second part expounds Smith’s theory of "impartial spectator", focus on the difference of Smith’s bystanders and actors, the bystander is an ideal observer, is standing on the position of neutral of conscience. The third part mainly from the perspective of impartial spectator analysis of Smith "sympathy" concept. The fourth part clarify Smith said "sympathy" relations with his moral philosophy. The fifth part is the conclusion part, mainly expounds the evaluation of the we said to Smith’s sympathy theory, analyze its value and defects.In this paper, the main new idea is that reference lessons from foreign related research results, from the Angle of Smith’s onlookers said of his sympathy, thus more accurate interpretation of the said of his sympathy for unique and unique theory value (unlike Hutchison, Hume said people sympathize with the theory of value), and can solve the so-called "Adam Smith problem", because this question is based on Smith said sympathy understanding, on the basis of will Smith’s "sympathy" to understand motives for actors, and Smith "sympathy" does not mean that behavior motives, emotional understanding of others, and others but impartial observer a result, a kind of contains rich content and complex theoretical concept.