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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Social Contract.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Individual lose from the Social Contract?
(a) Complete freedom.
(b) The right to own property.
(c) The right to defend themselves.
(d) All their freedoms.

2. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) Spinoza.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Karl Marx.

3. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?
(a) It makes defending one’s country more difficult.
(b) Many philosophers don't agree with it.
(c) Some people do not seem to act with a natural morality.
(d) It doesn't support a healthy economy.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Hobbes see the necessity of the Social Contract?

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

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

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

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

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