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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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Any great elevation of place communicates a kind of pride or sublimity of imagination, and gives a fancyed superiority over those that lie below; and, vice versa, a sublime and strong imagination conveys the idea of ascent and elevation. You can do it too! 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. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. The pain and pleasure, therefore, being the primary causes of vice and virtue, must also be the causes of all their effects, and consequently of pride and humility, which are the unavoidable attendants of that distinction. SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object.