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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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The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility. We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness.
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. The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue.