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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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We shall begin with examining the passions of pride and humility, and shall consider the vice or virtue that lies in their excesses or just proportion. Besides, the commerce of mankind is not confined to the barter of commodities, but may extend to services and actions, which we may exchange to our mutual interest and advantage. The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular 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. This partiality, then, and unequal affection, must not only have an influence on our behaviour and conduct in society, but even on our ideas of vice and virtue; so as to make us regard any remarkable transgression of such a degree of partiality, either by too great an enlargement, or contraction of the affections, as vicious and immoral. These are Fresh Targeted Prospects! - To continue the experiment, I change anew the relation of ideas, and suppose the vice to belong to myself. - As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature.
But to make the matter still more certain, I alter the object; and instead of vice and virtue, make the trial upon beauty and deformity, riches and poverty, power and servitude.