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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How, according to Rawls, does justice help to assign rights and duties?

3. Who should hold the greatest advantage in Rawls’ ideal society?

4. What is another name for the Original Position?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between the 'good' society and the Eudaimon, of 'Good Life' that Aristotle and Plato advocated?

2. What was the dominant political philosophy theory throughout the 20th Century?

3. What is the individual afforded in a just society, according to Rawls?

4. Why does Rawls prefer the Social Contract Theory?

5. Why does Rawls accept that his own argument is Intuitionist?

6. In Rawls’ estimation, why is fairness the best virtue for society?

7. What theory does Rawls want to re-invigorate in his argument?

8. When was the theory that Rawls wants to re-invigorate in his argument prevalent?

9. What problems does a just society answer, according to Rawls?

10. What does Rawls accept would happen in the Original Position?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent do you agree or disagree with Rawls's theory of Justice as Fairness?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and Contrast Rawls’ theory of Justice as Fairness with the school of Utilitarianism.

Essay Topic 3

Does Rawls' theory of the Just Society presuppose a world government?

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