亚当·斯密在《道德情操论》中提出了一整套与市场经济相适应的经济伦理思想和社会建设思想。其核心思想就是同情,强调每一个经济人都应具有同情之心、正义之德和创造财富的能力,强调社会经济发展的过程离不开对道德规范与精神价值的尊重。从“同情”出发,构建了一个理想的社会和谐的蓝本,这与我国社会主义和谐社会思想就其市场经济与伦理道德体系而言有其共性,这为我国现阶段的社会建设提供了最原始的理论资源,对我国构建和谐社会具有启发借鉴价值。 Adam Smith proposed in the “Theory of Moral Sentiments” a set of economic ethics and social construction ideas compatible with the market economy. The core idea is compassion. It emphasizes that every economic person should have the heart of compassion, the virtue of justice and the ability to create wealth, and stress that the process of social and economic development can not be separated from the respect of ethics and spiritual values. Starting from “sympathy ”, we set up an ideal blueprint for social harmony. This is in line with the concept of our socialist harmonious society in terms of its market economy and ethical system. This provides the social construction in our country at this stage The most primitive theoretical resources have the inspiration and reference value for building a harmonious society in our country.