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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Critique of Intuitionism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the maxim of Utilitarian philosophy?
(a) The greatest good for the greatest number.
(b) Might makes right.
(c) The greatest good to the deserving.
(d) The greatest good to the wealthiest.

2. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?
(a) The belief that feelings are better pleasures than stability, wealth or objects.
(b) The belief that intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.
(c) The belief that one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.
(d) The belief that going to church is the highest form of pleasure.

3. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?
(a) That there is a degree of Marxism within it.
(b) That there is a certain amount of Intuitionism present in 'fairness'.
(c) That it might be hard to apply to the real world.
(d) That it is quite socialist.

4. What does Rawls want his theory of justice to be?
(a) Something to remember.
(b) A viable alternative to other theories.
(c) The dominant political view.
(d) Something to destroy the theories of Utilitarianism.

5. How, according to Rawls, does justice help to assign rights and duties?
(a) It ensures that there is an equal distribution of such.
(b) It states who has the power and who doesn't.
(c) It ensures that some people get more duties than others.
(d) It enforces the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who should hold the greatest advantage in Rawls’ ideal society?

2. What does Rawls believe is the dominant theory of political philosophy throughout the 20th Century?

3. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?

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

5. What branch of philosophy is this book concerned with?

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