亚当.斯密受休谟人性论的影响,提出了人性利己的观点,认为每个人首要和主要关心的是他自己。斯密引入了“看不见的手”这一理论,即一种从利己出发的经济活动调节、从而使私利与公益协调的力量。它产生于人们在各个场合凭借是非之心对事物的合宜性的自然感觉的赞同基础上。在经济社会和政治社会中分别表现为经济规律与社会法规,以实现经济平衡与政治平衡。 Adam Smith, influenced by Hume’s theory of human nature, put forward the point of human self-interest, believing that it is himself, first and foremost, that everyone cares about. Smith introduced the theory that “invisible hand”, a force that regulates economic activity from self-interest, so that self-interest and public interest can be coordinated. It arises from the agreement that people, on every occasion, should rely on the natural feeling of the properness of things on the basis of their nonchalant feelings. In economic society and political society, they are respectively manifested as economic laws and social laws so as to achieve economic balance and political balance.