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    The motivations of agents are fundamentally self-directed. — Carmelics
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    Supports→Moral normativity cannot extend beyond what is in the fundamental interest of agents.

    The motivations of agents are fundamentally self-directed.

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    Hobbes thus seems to think that moral normativity has an essential connection to the motivations of agents. But because the motivations of agents are fundamentally self-directed, moral normativity cannot extend beyond what is in the fundamental interest of agents.

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