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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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Wherever we can make an idea approach the impressions in force and vivacity, it will likewise imitate them in its influence on the mind; and vice versa, where it imitates them in that influence, as in the present case, this must proceed from its approaching them in force and vivacity.

 Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. For whether the passion of self-interest be esteemed vicious or virtuous, it is all a case; since itself alone restrains it: So that if it be virtuous, men become social by their virtue; if vicious, their vice has the same effect. 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.  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. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE INTERNET SPECIAL - Buy 2, Get 1 Free - Buy 4, Get 2 Free