在十八世纪英国情感主义伦理学家中，休谟和斯密是两位颇引人注意的人物，他们以同情说为核心构建的情感伦理学所产生的影响是广泛的。十九世纪西欧再度出现情感论热，当今世界对道德情感的热衷研究，都可以或多或少地从他们那里找到历史的渊源与印证。自从沙夫茨贝里把“道德? Hume and Smith were two striking figures in the eighteenth-century British emotional ethicists, whose influence on emotional ethics centered on sympathy was extensive. In the nineteenth century, Western re-emergence of emotional heat, the current world’s passionate study of moral emotion, can be more or less from them to find the history of origin and evidence. Since Shaftesbury put "morality?