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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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In the former example, my perceptions in the apprehension of a house might begin at the roof and end at the foundation, or vice versa; or I might apprehend the manifold in this empirical intuition, by going from left to right, and from right to left. No virtue is more esteemed than justice, and no vice more detested than injustice; nor are there any qualities, which go farther to the fixing the character, either as amiable or odious. Ideas always represent their objects or impressions; and vice versa, there are some objects necessary to give rise to every idea. But however directly the distinction of vice and virtue may seem to flow from the immediate pleasure or uneasiness, which particular qualities cause to ourselves or others; it is easy to observe, that it has also a considerable dependence on the principle of sympathy so often insisted on. - To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal.
The passions do not always follow our corrections; but these corrections serve sufficiently to regulate our abstract notions, and are alone regarded, when we pronounce in general concerning the degrees of vice and virtue. To continue the experiment, I change anew the relation of ideas, and suppose the vice to belong to myself. Look at These Results: In giving a reason, therefore, for the pleasure or uneasiness, we sufficiently explain the vice or virtue.