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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Individual Versus Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?
(a) Their parents.
(b) The king.
(c) God.
(d) Nature.

2. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?
(a) Some people do not seem to act with a natural morality.
(b) It doesn't support a healthy economy.
(c) Many philosophers don't agree with it.
(d) It makes defending one’s country more difficult.

3. What year was Adam Smith born?
(a) 1623.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1923.

4. Why is the argument called the Original Position?
(a) Because it was the first argument Rawls thought of.
(b) Because it comes before everything else.
(c) Because it is about the first thing that a person sees when they wake up.
(d) Because it was a very early argument that Rawls revived.

5. How does the ignorant chooser know what is fair and what is not, according to Rawls?
(a) Because the monarch told them so.
(b) Because God told them so.
(c) Because of an innate knowledge of fairness.
(d) Because they are taught what to believe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

2. What is another name for the Original Position?

3. What do Intuitionist' believe in?

4. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?

5. Whom of the following was a leading 'Intuitionist'?

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