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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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Some moralists account for all the sentiments of virtue by this sense. We partake of their uneasiness by sympathy; and as every thing, which gives uneasiness in human actions, upon the general survey, is called Vice, and whatever produces satisfaction, in the same manner, is denominated Virtue; this is the reason why the sense of moral good and evil follows upon justice and injustice.
To have the sense of virtue, is nothing but to feel a satisfaction of a particular kind from the contemplation of a character. Virtue is considered as means to an end. The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility. - 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.