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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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It may now be proper to illustrate this general system of morals, by applying it to particular instances of virtue and vice, and shewing how their merit or demerit arises from the four sources here explained.

 It is one thing to know virtue, and another to conform the will to it. Thus we are still brought back to our first position, that virtue is distinguished by the pleasure, and vice by the pain, that any action, sentiment or character gives us by the mere view and contemplation. The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. Each of the virtues, even benevolence, justice, gratitude. It is one thing to know virtue, and another to conform the will to it. Virtue is considered as means to an end. Instead of a Job!