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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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Reason and judgment may, indeed, be the mediate cause of an action, by prompting, or by directing a passion: But it is not pretended, that a judgment of this kind, either in its truth or falshood, is attended with virtue or vice.

 

Reason and judgment may, indeed, be the mediate cause of an action, by prompting, or by directing a passion: But it is not pretended, that a judgment of this kind, either in its truth or falshood, is attended with virtue or vice.

 Private Labeled to me Search Engine Submission Even when the vice of inhumanity rises not to this extreme degree, our sentiments concerning it are very much influenced by reflections on the harm that results from it. Generation, in the human race as well as among the irrational animals, depends on so many accidents--of occasion, of proper sustenance, of the laws enacted by the government of a country of vice even, that it is difficult to believe in the eternal existence of a being whose life has begun under circumstances so mean and trivial, and so entirely dependent upon our own control. Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. A very play or romance may afford us instances of this pleasure, which virtue conveys to us; and pain, which arises from vice.  We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity. For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal.