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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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As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness.

 No required tests, classes, or books.  But can there be any difficulty in proving, that vice and virtue are not matters of fact, whose existence we can infer by reason? Take any action allowed to be vicious: Wilful murder, for instance. The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion.  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.