关键词: 休谟, 同情, 心理机制

Abstract: In Hume's views, Sympathy is a very powerful principle in human nature. The form of sympathy is natural. The sympathy sense revised by imagination isartificial. It is mechanism of sympathy that distinguish virtue and vice and make judgment. He completed transition from psychology to ethics by virtue of sympathy. Hume didn't succeed in conciliating the particularity of individual sensation and universality of moral principle because of his theory based on abstract human nature.

Key words: Hume, sympathy, psychological mechanism