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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.
(c) The belief that intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.
(d) The belief that going to church is the highest form of pleasure.

2. What branch of philosophy is this book concerned with?
(a) Skeptical.
(b) Epistemology.
(c) Political.
(d) Metaphysics.

3. What defines a good society, according to Rawls?
(a) A just society.
(b) A society that owns the most land.
(c) A wealthy society.
(d) A strong society.

4. 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 enforces the law.
(c) It states who has the power and who doesn't.
(d) It ensures that some people get more duties than others.

5. Who should hold the greatest advantage in Rawls’ ideal society?
(a) No one.
(b) The royals.
(c) The poor.
(d) The rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

2. What is the maxim of Utilitarian philosophy?

3. What is the first virtue of social institution, according to Rawls?

4. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?

5. What does Rawls want his theory of justice to be?

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