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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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These qualities, therefore, being agreeable, they naturally beget love and esteem, and answer to all the characters of virtue. The most probable hypothesis, which has been advanced to explain the distinction betwixt vice and virtue, and the origin of moral rights and obligations, is, that from a primary constitution of nature certain characters and passions, by the very view and contemplation, produce a pain, and others in like manner excite a pleasure. For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss.