亚当·斯密认为,同情是人人都具有的情感,本身不具备道德性,但在人们的社会交往中,基于这种情感的行为却成了美德。在《道德情操论》中,他描述了个体情感社会化的可能和过程,为我们理解道德情感和公共生活领域中的道德问题提供了重要的借鉴。 Adam Smith believes that sympathy is the emotion everyone has, and does not itself have the moral character, but in people’s social interaction, behavior based on this emotion has become a virtue. In “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, he described the possibility and process of the socialization of individual emotions, which provided an important reference for us to understand the moral issues in the field of moral emotion and public life.