Hobbes reduced moral obligation to prudential self-interest calculation

Evidence

In this perspective moral obligation is reduced to prudential calculation, consistent with Hobbes’s secular picture of natural rights— and so, too, of political obligation. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 638

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hobbes reduced human free will, appetite, and liberty to mechanical motion — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 810