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Cliquer sur les phrases pour les voir dans leur contexte. Les textes de Immanuel Kant et David Hume sont disponibles auprès du Projet Gutenberg.
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No one will deny, that a negligence in this particular is a fault; and as faults are nothing but smaller vices, and this fault can have no other origin than the uneasy sensation, which it excites in others, we may in this instance, seemingly so trivial, dearly discover the origin of the moral distinction of vice and virtue in other instances. 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. The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility. As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature.