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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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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. Girls who don't do this for a living - girl next door types. I choose an object, such as virtue, that causes a separate satisfaction: On this object I bestow a relation to self; and find, that from this disposition of affairs, there immediately arises a passion. Nor will this reasoning be advantageous to us only by shewing, that the distinction of vice and virtue arises from the four principles of the advantage and of the pleasure of the person himself, and of others: But may also afford us a strong proof of some under-parts of that hypothesis. I must farther add, that there are several circumstances, which render this hypothesis much more probable with regard to the natural than the artificial virtues. As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness. To that principle, therefore, we are to ascribe the sentiment of approbation, which arises from the survey of all those virtues, that are useful to society, or to the person possessed of them. The case is the same, as when we correct the different sentiments of virtue, which proceed from its different distances from ourselves.