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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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According to this system, then, every animal, that has sense, and appetite, and will; that is, every animal must be susceptible of all the same virtues and vices, for which we ascribe praise and blame to human creatures. The virtue or vice of a son or brother not only excites love or hatred, but by a new transition, from similar causes, gives rise to pride or humility. No virtue is more esteemed than justice, and no vice more detested than injustice; nor are there any qualities, which go farther to the fixing the character, either as amiable or odious. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. Now virtue and vice are attended with these circumstances. Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion.