Cheers, Ken Hanly
Sam Pawlett wrote:
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> "Hobbes offers the most unified and compelling psychological portrayal
> of economic man...Economic man is a radical contractarian in that all of
> his free or non-coercive interpersonal relationships are contractual.
> For him, voluntary social relationships require a rationale; contract
> provides it. The idea underlying contract, that persons who take
> no interest in one another's interests may nevertheless be able to
> interact in a mutually advantageous manner,is,as we have noted,one of
> the great liberating ideas in human history, freeing persons from the
> requirement that they be affectively dependent on their fellows. But
> economic man carries this liberation to the full extreme; his
> exclusively asocial motivation precludes voluntary non-contractual
> interpersonal relationships. He is not only freed from compulsory
> affective dependence; he is incapable of voluntary affection." MBA,p310.
>
> > No, it is not. the classic 2 person PD involves two self interested persons (only) who will never again interact, who are seperated and unable to communicate on strategy, and whose options are ranked in a certain way that generates the puzzle. Hobbes has the selfish motivations and the ranking, but that is all. the rest of the structure is lacking.
> >
>
> In Hobbes case, it need not be a two person game. The problem of social
> order is a collective action problem requiring more than two players.
> But as Gauthier says, an iterated pd is too easy solve.
>
> Sam Pawlett