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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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At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity.

 To suppose, that the mere regard to the virtue of the action. 
For granting that morality had no foundation in nature, it must still be allowed, that vice and virtue, either from self-interest or the prejudices of education, produce in us a real pain and pleasure; and this we may observe to be strenuously asserted by the defenders of that hypothesis.
 It is the same case, if justice, according to the system of certain philosophers, should be esteemed an artificial and not a natural virtue. 

As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness.

 But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue. Vice, when placed on another, excites, by means of its double relations, the passion of hatred, instead of love, which for the same reason arises from virtue. We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. But as there is naturally no inclination to observe promises, distinct from a sense of their obligation; it follows, that fidelity is no natural virtue, and that promises have no force, antecedent to human conventions,