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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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IMPORTANT: Ideas always represent their objects or impressions; and vice versa, there are some objects necessary to give rise to every idea. The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES For in the first sense of the word, Nature, as opposed to miracles, both vice and virtue are equally natural; and in the second sense, as opposed to what is unusual, perhaps virtue will be found to be the most unnatural. As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature. Though we refuse to natural abilities the title of virtues, we must allow, that they procure the love and esteem of mankind; that they give a new lustre to the other virtues; and that a man possessed of them is much more intitled to our good-will and services, than one entirely void of them.