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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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Whether this virtue of humility has been rightly understood, I shall not pretend to determine. $ Get An Education or Follow Your Dream. Thus the good and bad qualities of our actions and manners constitute virtue and vice, and determine our personal character, than which nothing operates more strongly on these passions. For whether the passion of self-interest be esteemed vicious or virtuous, it is all a case; since itself alone restrains it: So that if it be virtuous, men become social by their virtue; if vicious, their vice has the same effect. SECT. V SOME FARTHER REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE NATURAL VIRTUES - It follows that it is only because we subject the sequence of phenomena, and consequently all change, to the law of causality, that experience itself, that is, empirical cognition of phenomena, becomes possible; and consequently, that phenomena themselves, as objects of experience, are possible only by virtue of this law.
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. SECT. V SOME FARTHER REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE NATURAL VIRTUES We shall begin with examining the passions of pride and humility, and shall consider the vice or virtue that lies in their excesses or just proportion.