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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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For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss. As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature. 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. Things are coexistent, when in empirical intuition the perception of the one can follow upon the perception of the other, and vice versa-- which cannot occur in the succession of phenomena, as we have shown in the explanation of the second principle. Even when the vice of inhumanity rises not to this extreme degree, our sentiments concerning it are very much influenced by reflections on the harm that results from it. Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy.