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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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The most rigid morality allows us to receive a pleasure from reflecting on a generous action; and it is by none esteemed a virtue to feel any fruitless remorses upon the thoughts of past villainy and baseness. Get a RISK-FREE trial to FHM! – We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility. All the difference is, that our superior reason may serve to discover the vice or virtue, and by that means may augment the blame or praise: But still this discovery supposes a separate being in these moral distinctions, and a being, which depends only on the will and appetite, and which, both in thought and reality, may be distinguished from the reason. Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity.