Cooperation rests on coercion, interests, values, and personal bonds

Evidence

The mechanisms which motivate cooperation in any form of human endeavour, as Bernard Williams explains elsewhere in this volume, comprise four basic elements: coercion, interests, values, and personal bonds. People, that is, may decide to cooperate (1) for fear of sanctions; (2) because cooperation enhances their mutual economic interests; (3) because they have general reasons, whether cultural, moral or religious, to believe that cooperation is good irrespective of sanctions and rewards; and finally (4) because they are related to one another by bonds of kin or friendship. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2202

Categorization

• DEFINE: A clean four-part taxonomy of cooperation’s motivational bases that could anchor the trust analysis.
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the sacrifice/trust theme — which of these four mechanisms operates when sight vanishes in Saramago, and which fail.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2202
• XREF: connects to: Loose social conventions undermine our capacity to make credible long-term commitments; Everyone relying on shared institutions is a fragile, tipable equilibrium; Opening with cooperation is rational self-interest, not mere morality — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 544 (+18 more)

Broader Connections

• Trust requires both freedom to defect and constraints that make cooperation attractive #expands (0.82)
• Trust is a result rather than a precondition of cooperation #corroborates (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2781
• Groups induce cooperation through sanctions even without trusting their members #expands (0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 808
• Cooperation can operate independently of trust #corroborates (0.75)
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194