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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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PART I OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL

 

The case is the same, as when we correct the different sentiments of virtue, which proceed from its different distances from ourselves.

 Those who affirm that virtue is nothing but a conformity to reason; that there are eternal fitnesses and unfitnesses of things, which are the same to every rational being that considers them; that the immutable measures of right and wrong impose an obligation, not only on human creatures, but also on the Deity himself: All these systems concur in the opinion, that morality, like truth, is discerned merely by ideas, and by their juxta-position and comparison. I was staying up later, but was more refreshed in the morning. Now virtue and vice are attended with these circumstances. We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue. The passions do not always follow our corrections; but these corrections serve sufficiently to regulate our abstract notions, and are alone regarded, when we pronounce in general concerning the degrees of vice and virtue. For in the first sense of the word, Nature, as opposed to miracles, both vice and virtue are equally natural; and in the second sense, as opposed to what is unusual, perhaps virtue will be found to be the most unnatural. 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.