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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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Now it has been observed, that our own sensations determine the vice and virtue of any quality, as well as those sensations, which it may excite in others. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. Now it may, in like manner, be objected to the present system, that if virtue and vice be determined by pleasure and pain, these qualities must, in every case, arise from the sensations; and consequently any object, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational, might become morally good or evil, provided it can excite a satisfaction or uneasiness. E-mail advertising works!