アダム・スミス『道徳感情論』(15)条件付きの共感(conditional sympathy)
The same thing often happens with regard to all the other passions. A stranger passes by us in the street with all the marks of the deepest affliction; and we are immediately told that he has just received the news of the death of his father. It is impossible that, in this case, we should not approve of his grief. Yet it may often happen, without any defect of humanity on our part, that, so far from entering into the violence of his sorrow, we should scarce conceive the first movements of concern upon his account. – Adam Smith, The Theory of moral sentiments : 1. Part 1 Of the Propriety of Action Consisting of Three Sections : 1.1. Section I Of the Sense of Propriety : 1.1.3. Chap. III Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men, by their concord or dissonance with out own. 《他のすべての感情に関しても、同じことがよく起こる。この上なく深い苦悩の面持ちをした見知らぬ人が道ですれ違い、父親の訃報に接したばかりだと言う。このような場合、彼の悲しみを認めないわけにはいかない。けれども、こちらに慈悲心が欠けてはいなくても、彼の悲しみの激しさを汲み取れず、彼のために心配しようにも、まずどうすればよいのか...