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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Individual Liberties.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rawls think a person would decide about their society if they had any choice?
(a) That it would be at least a strong society.
(b) That it be at least a beautiful land.
(c) That it be at least a wealthy society.
(d) That it would be at least fair.

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

3. How many principles of justice does the Original Position later result in?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

5. Why is the argument called the Original Position?
(a) Because it was the first argument Rawls thought of.
(b) Because it comes before everything else.
(c) Because it is about the first thing that a person sees when they wake up.
(d) Because it was a very early argument that Rawls revived.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the implicit assumption that the Social Contract theory makes?

3. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?

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

5. What does the Individual lose from the Social Contract?

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