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

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

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

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

5. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?
(a) That different people’s situations mean different levels of happiness, contentment or suffering.
(b) Utilitarianism is never applied to the society.
(c) It perceives persons only as voters.
(d) Utilitarianism is never applied to the individual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What defines a good society, according to Rawls?

2. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

3. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

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

5. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?

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