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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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Without such a convention, no one would ever have dreamed, that there was such a virtue as justice, or have been induced to conform his actions to it. The virtue or vice of a son or brother not only excites love or hatred, but by a new transition, from similar causes, gives rise to pride or humility. The only difference betwixt the natural virtues and justice lies in this, that the good, which results from the former, arises from every single act, and is the object of some natural passion: Whereas a single act of justice, considered in itself, may often be contrary to the public good; and it is only the concurrence of mankind, in a general scheme or system of action, which is advantageous. Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. The idea of a moral world has, therefore, objective reality, not as referring to an object of intelligible intuition--for of such an object we can form no conception whatever--but to the world of sense--conceived, however, as an object of pure reason in its practical use--and to a corpus mysticum of rational beings in it, in so far as the liberum arbitrium of the individual is placed, under and by virtue of moral laws, in complete systematic unity both with itself and with the freedom of all others. A very play or romance may afford us instances of this pleasure, which virtue conveys to us; and pain, which arises from vice. It is all done for me already, even the payment gateway integration. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal.