based not on some kind of constituting law – whether divine law, the law of nature, or the law of social contract – which determines the rights and wrongs of the individual’s interest with respect to public affairs, but on the individual interests themselves, so that ‘the private interest is the same with the publique.’fn36 There is hardly a single bourgeois moral standard which has not been anticipated by the unequaled magnificence of Hobbes’s logic.
