Oyonale - Créations 3D et expériences graphiques
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We can never have a regard to the virtue of an action, unless the action be antecedently virtuous. This partiality, then, and unequal affection, must not only have an influence on our behaviour and conduct in society, but even on our ideas of vice and virtue; so as to make us regard any remarkable transgression of such a degree of partiality, either by too great an enlargement, or contraction of the affections, as vicious and immoral. To begin, with vice and virtue; which are the most obvious causes of these passions; it would be entirely foreign to my present purpose to enter upon the controversy, which of late years has so much excited the curiosity of the publick. We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. We can never have a regard to the virtue of an action, unless the action be antecedently virtuous. Each of the virtues, even benevolence, justice, gratitude.