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Cliquer sur les phrases pour les voir dans leur contexte. Les textes de Immanuel Kant et David Hume sont disponibles auprès du Projet Gutenberg.

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To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal.

 Where these angry passions rise up to cruelty, they form the most detested of all vices.  This naturally gives us an uneasiness, in considering such seditious and disloyal actions, and makes us attach to them the idea of vice and moral deformity. 
For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices.
 To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. 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. If this be allowed with respect to extension and number, we can make no difficulty with respect to virtue and vice, wit and folly, riches and poverty, happiness and misery, and other objects of that kind, which are always attended with an evident emotion. This naturally gives us an uneasiness, in considering such seditious and disloyal actions, and makes us attach to them the idea of vice and moral deformity.