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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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Whether we ascribe our esteem of the rich and great to one or all of these causes, we may clearly see the traces of those principles, which give rise to the sense of vice and virtue. That virtue, as it is now understood. Several moralists have recommended it as an excellent method of becoming acquainted with our own hearts, and knowing our progress in virtue, to recollect our dreams in a morning, and examine them with the same rigour, that we would our most serious and most deliberate actions. 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. That virtue, as it is now understood. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. 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.