The Compliance problem is a problem in
contractarian ethics. It states that it is in the individuals' best interest to agree to contract, but not to comply to them.
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes ( ; 5/15 April 1588 – 4/14 December 1679) was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ''Leviathan'', in which he expounds an influent ...
first outlined the compliance problem in
The Leviathan with the character called 'the foole'. His suggested solution was political
coercion
Coercion () is compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against a party. It involves a set of forceful actions which violate the free will of an individual in order to induce a desi ...
and oppression.
David Gauthier
David Gauthier (; born 10 September 1932) is a Canadian-American philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian social contract (contractarian) theory of morality, as developed in his 1986 book ''Morals by Agreement''.
Life and career
Gauthie ...
is the current leading philosopher on the compliance problem. His suggested solution includes the theory of
minimax relative concession.
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