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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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The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility. An action must be virtuous, before we can have a regard to its virtue. The first is the conjunction of a particular state with another preceding it in the world of sense, the former following the latter by virtue of a law. - Now it has been observed, that our own sensations determine the vice and virtue of any quality, as well as those sensations, which it may excite in others.
The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. This, no doubt, is to be regarded as an idle fiction; but yet deserves our attention, because nothing can more evidently shew the origin of those virtues, which are the subjects of our present enquiry. To that principle, therefore, we are to ascribe the sentiment of approbation, which arises from the survey of all those virtues, that are useful to society, or to the person possessed of them.