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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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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.

 
The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue.
 Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. But can there be any difficulty in proving, that vice and virtue are not matters of fact, whose existence we can infer by reason? Take any action allowed to be vicious: Wilful murder, for instance. The new 3-inch mini remote control cars are out of stock everywhere!  But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue.