试论休谟情感主义伦理学中的同情原则

The Sympathy Principle of Hume's Emotionalist Ethics

同情原则是休谟情感主义伦理学中最重要的原则,没有同情概念而去讨论休谟人性哲学中理性与情感、理性与道德的关系几乎是不可能的。休谟正是通过心理情感之中同情概念的道德假设使得人性科学才具有了自圆其说的意义。他把同情视为人类行为与心灵的传导机制,不仅是对社会对他人的一种怜悯的态度,而且赋予了其更广阔的意义。

The sympathy principle is the most important in Hume＇s emotionalist ethnics. It is almost impossible to discuss the relations among reason,emotion and morality in Hume＇s humane philosophy. It was the sympathy specific emotional and moral hypothesis Hume applied to justify the significance of human sciences. He took sympathy as the transmission mechanism for the behavior and thinking of mankind,which not just a pitiful attitude toward others but also a broad sense thus endowed.