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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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As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness. At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. And indeed we may observe, that the natural abilities, no more than the other virtues, produce not, all of them, the same kind of approbation. SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE The passions do not always follow our corrections; but these corrections serve sufficiently to regulate our abstract notions, and are alone regarded, when we pronounce in general concerning the degrees of vice and virtue. Before we can have such a regard, the action must be really virtuous; and this virtue must be derived from some virtuous motive: And consequently the virtuous motive must be different from the regard to the virtue of the action.