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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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(Included in the course) Quote's from several of our students:

 To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. In giving a reason, therefore, for the pleasure or uneasiness, we sufficiently explain the vice or virtue. Even when the vice of inhumanity rises not to this extreme degree, our sentiments concerning it are very much influenced by reflections on the harm that results from it. The most probable hypothesis, which has been advanced to explain the distinction betwixt vice and virtue, and the origin of moral rights and obligations, is, that from a primary constitution of nature certain characters and passions, by the very view and contemplation, produce a pain, and others in like manner excite a pleasure.