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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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Ideas always represent their objects or impressions; and vice versa, there are some objects necessary to give rise to every idea. A very play or romance may afford us instances of this pleasure, which virtue conveys to us; and pain, which arises from vice. The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. Now virtue and vice are attended with these circumstances. 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. But it is certain, that self-love, when it acts at its liberty, instead of engaging us to honest actions, is the source of all injustice and violence; nor can a man ever correct those vices, without correcting and restraining the natural movements of that appetite. But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue. For in the first sense of the word, Nature, as opposed to miracles, both vice and virtue are equally natural; and in the second sense, as opposed to what is unusual, perhaps virtue will be found to be the most unnatural. | Now virtue and vice are attended with these circumstances. |