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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 greatest criticism levelled against Utilitarianism?
(a) That minority views are ignored.
(b) That majority views are ignored.
(c) It is not strong enough.
(d) It's not realistic.

2. 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 individual.
(c) Utilitarianism is never applied to the society.
(d) It perceives persons only as voters.

3. What does Rawls believe is the dominant theory of political philosophy throughout the 20th Century?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Utilitarianism.
(c) Republicanism.
(d) Ontology.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?

4. What is the maxim of Utilitarian philosophy?

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

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