Study On Hume Thought Of Moral Emotion

Hume’s moral thought is an important part of his ethics, but also the goal or destination of Hume philosophy. Although, this thought of Hume has the limitations of the times, but you can still find worthwhile content. Hume’s moral emotions and thoughts to our understanding and further thinking of modern emotion principle provides the basis, so that we can become more aware of the importance of moral emotion of our time.Moral emotion is a bridge between Hume theory and moral consciousness, from the theory of perception to the emotional and moral, is Hume in order to verify the theory of knowledge and the. If not for the moral and emotional states, then, Hume’s whole philosophy of human nature can be fully displayed. In this paper, the relationship between the rational, emotional and moral concept of Hume as reference, further excavation and interpretation in Hume’s ethics thought essence, moral emotion.In this paper, from four aspects of Hume’s moral thoughts and feelings to grasp:the first part explains the Hume’s reason, emotion and moral connotation further illustrate the relationship between reason and emotion and moral, that Hume’s moral emotions and thoughts of the development and change process. The second part. First of all, we discuss the Hume’s theory of perception, that impression and idea in Hume’s moral emotions and thoughts of the meaning and its relationship. Secondly, the article mainly expounds the Hume’s "relationship theory", to "the relationship between time and space" as a benchmark, discusses the "causal relationship" probable; then, it discusses the Hume’s "doubt" thought, respectively from two aspects of the rational deduction and sensory experience illustrates Hume as a moderate skeptic nature. The third part, firstly discusses the emotional decision, a clear moral distinction is by emotional or moral sense of the decision,"leads to an important category is" and "should" from, pointed out that "fact" is unable to launch "value","truth" does not include "value","value" does not include the "facts", there is no necessity between them; secondly, the virtue of the classification, respectively expounds the natural ethics and social morality, benevolence and justice for the typical to carry on the elaboration, pointed out the importance of Hume’s moral virtue emotion; then, discusses Hume’s moral judgment, from the moral the source to the principle of sympathy morality to moral judgment standard, to further explain the process of Hume’s moral and emotional development complete. The fourth part, to the historical influence of Hume’s moral thoughts and feelings as a starting point, respectively, tells the story of it to utilitarianism, modern emotion and virtue ethics intrinsic effects, and points out that Hume’s moral emotions and thoughts for today’s society enlightenment and reference. Further explained the conclusion part of the full text of the deficiencies and this paper to achieve the purpose of interpretation of the Hume’s moral emotions and thoughts of the limitations, and points out that moral emotion should be combined with theory of motivation and consequences of method on the importance of the principle to carry on the appraisal to the moral behavior.