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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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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. For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. 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. Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. (Millions of people live in the US but prefer to speak, read and write in their own language!) If you assert, that vice and virtue consist in relations susceptible of certainty and demonstration, you must confine yourself to those four relations, which alone admit of that degree of evidence; and in that case you run into absurdities, from which you will never be able to extricate yourself.