“斯密问题”最早是由德国历史学派的经济学家于19世纪中叶提出。“经济科学之父”亚当·斯密在《道德情操论》中将道德行为的动机归之为同情或利他,提出人性论是利他主义的;而在《国富论》中将人们的经济行为的动机归结为利己的,提出人性论是利己主义的,由此造成了伦理学和经济学之间的对立,反映了斯密前后思想上的碰撞和矛盾。这一从人的本性角度对斯密两大著 Smith’s Problem was first proposed by economists of German history in the mid-19th century. Adam Smith, the father of economic science, classified the motive of moral behavior as sympathy or altruism in Almanac of Sentimentality and proposed that the theory of human nature is altruism. In “Wealth of Nations”, the economic behavior of people Motivated by self-interest, put forward the theory of human nature is self-serving, thus creating the antagonism between ethics and economics, reflecting the ideological collision and contradiction before and after Smith. This from the perspective of human nature of Smith two main