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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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They must necessarily be placed either in ourselves or others, and excite either pleasure or uneasiness; and therefore must give rise to one of these four passions; which clearly distinguishes them from the pleasure and pain arising from inanimate objects, that often bear no relation to us: And this is, perhaps, the most considerable effect that virtue and vice have upon the human mind. And indeed we may observe, that the natural abilities, no more than the other virtues, produce not, all of them, the same kind of approbation. In another sense of the word; as no principle of the human mind is more natural than a sense of virtue; so no virtue is more natural than justice. A very play or romance may afford us instances of this pleasure, which virtue conveys to us; and pain, which arises from vice. You have nothing to lose yet everything to gain. Whether this virtue of humility has been rightly understood, I shall not pretend to determine. This partiality, then, and unequal affection, must not only have an influence on our behaviour and conduct in society, but even on our ideas of vice and virtue; so as to make us regard any remarkable transgression of such a degree of partiality, either by too great an enlargement, or contraction of the affections, as vicious and immoral. Those who resolve the sense of morals into original instincts of the human mind, may defend the cause of virtue with sufficient authority; but want the advantage, which those possess, who account for that sense by an extensive sympathy with mankind.