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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 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.

 To continue the experiment, I change anew the relation of ideas, and suppose the vice to belong to myself. In giving a reason, therefore, for the pleasure or uneasiness, we sufficiently explain the vice or virtue. No waiting in the doctor’s office, no hassle. 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. 
As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness.
 Things are coexistent, when in empirical intuition the perception of the one can follow upon the perception of the other, and vice versa-- which cannot occur in the succession of phenomena, as we have shown in the explanation of the second principle.