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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Original Position.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Individual gain out of the Social Contract?
(a) Power and glory.
(b) Military might.
(c) Money and wealth.
(d) Protection and security.

2. What is the maxim of Utilitarian philosophy?
(a) The greatest good to the wealthiest.
(b) Might makes right.
(c) The greatest good to the deserving.
(d) The greatest good for the greatest number.

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

4. 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 some people get more duties than others.
(c) It enforces the law.
(d) It ensures that there is an equal distribution of such.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rawls claim about the Social Contract theory?

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

3. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?

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

5. What is another name for the Original Position?

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