我国目前处于改革攻坚阶段,道德问题受到广泛关注,大学生思想道德教育始终是个常问常新的话题。亚当·斯密的《道德情操论》曾为市场经济条件下的资本主义社会提供了道德标准,对西方现代社会道德体系的形成起到奠基作用。当前,《道德情操论》中有关行为合宜性的理论对社会主义道德建设仍然具有借鉴意义。 At present, our country is at a crucial stage of reform and moral issues have drawn widespread attention. Ideological and moral education for college students has always been a topic of constant concern. Adam Smith’s “Theory of Moral Sentiments” provided the moral standard for the capitalist society in the market economy and laid the foundation for the formation of the moral system in modern Western society. At present, the theory of appropriateness of behavior in “Moral Sentiment Theory” still has reference value to the construction of socialist morality.