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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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Courage, intrepidity, ambition, love of glory, magnanimity, and all the other shining virtues of that kind, have plainly a strong mixture of self-esteem in them, and derive a great part of their merit from that origin. Vice and virtue, therefore, may be compared to sounds, colours, heat and cold, which, according to modern philosophy, are not qualities in objects, but perceptions in the mind: And this discovery in morals, like that other in physics, is to be regarded as a considerable advancement of the speculative sciences; though, like that too, it has little or no influence on practice. 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 giving a reason, therefore, for the pleasure or uneasiness, we sufficiently explain the vice or virtue. But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue. Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature.