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The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. | SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE |
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. The pain or pleasure, which arises from the general survey or view of any action or quality of the mind, constitutes its vice or virtue, and gives rise to our approbation or blame, which is nothing but a fainter and more imperceptible love or hatred. The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion. If you assert, that vice and virtue consist in relations susceptible of certainty and demonstration, you must confine yourself to those four relations, which alone admit of that degree of evidence; and in that case you run into absurdities, from which you will never be able to extricate yourself. Thus the course of the argument leads us to conclude, that since vice and virtue are not discoverable merely by reason, or the comparison of ideas, it must be by means of some impression or sentiment they occasion, that we are able to mark the difference betwixt them. In giving a reason, therefore, for the pleasure or uneasiness, we sufficiently explain the vice or virtue.