The Prince substitutes for divinity and the categorical imperative

Evidence

In men’s consciences, the Prince takes the place of the divinity or the categorical imperative, and becomes the basis for a modern laicism and for a complete laicisation of all aspects of life and of all customary relationships. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines how the modern Prince functions as the new moral horizon replacing religion and Kantian ethics—a laicization mechanism.
• XREF: Connects to Nietzsche’s death-of-God and revaluation of values, and later to secularization-of-theology arguments in postcolonial critique.

Related

• The modern Prince must organise both moral reform and collective will (similarity 0.81)