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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Social Equality and Inequality.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?
(a) The belief that intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.
(b) The belief that feelings are better pleasures than stability, wealth or objects.
(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.

4. What does Rawls claim about the Social Contract theory?
(a) It is the only philosophy that makes sense.
(b) It is better than Utilitarian theory.
(c) It is ridiculous.
(d) It is better than Marxism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rawls think a person would decide about their society if they had any choice?

2. What is the greatest criticism levelled against Utilitarianism?

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

4. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?

5. What is assumed about the liberty of the Individual, according to “The Two Principles of Justice”?

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