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Cliquer sur les phrases pour les voir dans leur contexte. Les textes de Immanuel Kant et David Hume sont disponibles auprès du Projet Gutenberg.

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Any artifice of politicians may assist nature in the producing of those sentiments, which she suggests to us, and may even on some occasions, produce alone an approbation or esteem for any particular action; but it is impossible it should be the sole cause of the distinction we make betwixt vice and virtue.

 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. It is impossible, therefore, that the character of natural and unnatural can ever, in any sense, mark the boundaries of vice and virtue. SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE To suppose, that the mere regard to the virtue of the action. The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue. But though this distinction betwixt voluntary and involuntary be not sufficient to justify the distinction betwixt natural abilities and moral virtues, yet the former distinction will afford us a plausible reason, why moralists have invented the latter. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness.