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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
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For whatever may be the case, with regard to all kinds of vice and virtue, it is certain, that rights, and obligations, and property, admit of no such insensible gradation, but that a man either has a full and perfect property, or none at all; and is either entirely obliged to perform any action, or lies under no manner of obligation. For granting that morality had no foundation in nature, it must still be allowed, that vice and virtue, either from self-interest or the prejudices of education, produce in us a real pain and pleasure; and this we may observe to be strenuously asserted by the defenders of that hypothesis. - Now it has been observed, that our own sensations determine the vice and virtue of any quality, as well as those sensations, which it may excite in others.
For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. To continue the experiment, I change anew the relation of ideas, and suppose the vice to belong to myself. For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss.