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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) Something to destroy the theories of Utilitarianism.
(d) A viable alternative to other theories.

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

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

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

5. Which century was Intuitionism first developed?
(a) Fifteenth.
(b) Sixteenth.
(c) Eighteenth.
(d) Seventeenth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?

3. What do Intuitionist' believe in?

4. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?

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

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