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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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Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. We can never have a regard to the virtue of an action, unless the action be antecedently virtuous. But this standard is the idea of virtue, in relation to which all possible objects of experience are indeed serviceable as examples--proofs of the practicability in a certain degree of that which the conception of virtue demands--but certainly not as archetypes. Show Your Love with a Healthy Smile! There are therefore certain laws (which are moreover a priori) which make nature possible; and all empirical laws can exist only by means of experience, and by virtue of those primitive laws through which experience itself becomes possible. SECT. V SOME FARTHER REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE NATURAL VIRTUES And though our judgments concerning the origin of any vice or virtue, be not so certain as those concerning their degrees; yet, since the question in this case regards not any philosophical origin of an obligation, but a plain matter of fact, it is not easily conceived how we can fall into an error. If this be allowed with respect to extension and number, we can make no difficulty with respect to virtue and vice, wit and folly, riches and poverty, happiness and misery, and other objects of that kind, which are always attended with an evident emotion. PART I OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity.