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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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An action must be virtuous, before we can have a regard to its virtue. The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue. MARRY your BROTHER, SISTER, or your BEST FRIEND!! I must farther add, that there are several circumstances, which render this hypothesis much more probable with regard to the natural than the artificial virtues. From this principle I conclude, that the first virtuous motive, which bestows a merit on any action, can never be a regard to the virtue of that action. Thus it appears, that sympathy is a very powerful principle in human nature, that it has a great influence on our taste of beauty, and that it produces our sentiment of morals in all the artificial virtues.