Sympathy, Sorrow, Conviviality

While Hume's concept of Knowledge is the prototype of Atomist Associationism, his Moral doctrine, though not systematically presented as such, is conversely structured.  His fundamental Moral principle is, as he explicitly presents it in the Enquiry, a Species-Instinct that he calls Sympathy, a feeling that admits of degrees of comprehensiveness.  Accordingly, an Egoist impulse is not antithetical to Sympathy, rather, is its least comprehensive manifestation.  Now, by 'Sympathy', Hume means, literally, 'feeling-with', with respect to which the more common connotation, 'feeling sorry for', is only a special case.  Thus, Conviviality is also an instance of Sympathy.  So, Capitalism codifies the suppression of any feeling-sorry-for-others, but also any shared joy, which more effectively illustrates the thesis that Smith's system promotes psychological disorder.