Oyonale - Créations 3D et expériences graphiques
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Now justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind; and, indeed, is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. It is one thing to know virtue, and another to conform the will to it. As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature. This relation it will be impossible for me fully to explain before I come to treat of justice and the other moral virtues. Thus self-interest is the original motive to the establishment of justice: but a sympathy with public interest is the source of the moral approbation, which attends that virtue. Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. 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.