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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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The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue.

 
But to this I answer, first, that many of those qualities, which all moralists, especially the antients, comprehend under the title of moral virtues, are equally involuntary and necessary, with the qualities of the judgment and imagination.
 The first is the conjunction of a particular state with another preceding it in the world of sense, the former following the latter by virtue of a law. It is the same case, if justice, according to the system of certain philosophers, should be esteemed an artificial and not a natural virtue. SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. Thus self-interest is the original motive to the establishment of justice: but a sympathy with public interest is the source of the moral approbation, which attends that virtue. I suppose the virtue to belong to my companion, not to myself; and observe what follows from this alteration.