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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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Now it has been observed, that our own sensations determine the vice and virtue of any quality, as well as those sensations, which it may excite in others. WHETHER IT IS BY MEANS OF OUR IDEAS OR IMPRESSIONS WE DISTINGUISH BETWIXT VICE AND VIRTUE, AND PRONOUNCE AN ACTION BLAMEABLE OR PRAISEWORTHY? This will immediately cut off all loose discourses and declamations, and reduce us to something precise and exact on the present subject. As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature. Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity.