ABSTRACT
Contractarian efforts to produce a motivating justification for normative systems have come up against a brick wall: the compliance problem. Jan Narveson, in The Libertarian Idea, embraces contractarianism due to intuitionism's contingent failure to produce moral rules that we can all embrace, and its contingent failure to produce normative claims which move us to act. A contractarian interested in accounting for morality's motivation may only be interested in showing that every agent has reasons to comply, but not that they are sufficient reasons to comply. Contractarianism as education asks very little of the non-indoctrinated citizens of the first generation. Instead of asking for compliance with the rules all of the time, it would minimally be necessary to simply appear to follow the rules whenever someone of the next generation is looking. The compliance problem as traditionally conceived is an inevitable result of contractarianism as traditionally conceived.
