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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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But however directly the distinction of vice and virtue may seem to flow from the immediate pleasure or uneasiness, which particular qualities cause to ourselves or others; it is easy to observe, that it has also a considerable dependence on the principle of sympathy so often insisted on.

 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. SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature. Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES But supposing this hypothesis of moral philosophy should be allowed to be false, it is still evident, that pain and pleasure, if not the causes of vice and virtue, are at least inseparable from them. Ideas always represent their objects or impressions; and vice versa, there are some objects necessary to give rise to every idea. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal.