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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 assumed about the liberty of the Individual, according to “The Two Principles of Justice”?

2. What does Rawls claim about the freedom of assembly?

3. What is a Totalitarian state?

4. What does Rawls admit might happen within his just society?

5. What is the only caveat to a maximum liberty of the individual?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the limits of human freedom, according to the Two Principles of Justice?

2. In what way does Rawls admit that inequalities can be endured in his system?

3. How does the Original Position not account for second- or later generations?

4. What is the second principle that the Original Position ensures?

5. What is the first principle that the Original Position ensures?

6. What has to be used to ensure the two principles of justice?

7. Who decides the limits of human liberty, according to the Two Principles of Justice?

8. In what way does the Original Position ensure the two principles of justice?

9. Why are the limits of human freedom according to the Two Principles of Justice essentially a form of social contract?

10. What form must the protection of disadvantaged people come from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the views of Rawls with that of John Stuart Mill. In what ways do they differ? How would John Stuart Mill argue against Rawls' claims?

Essay Topic 2

Political Philosophy

a. What is the ideal form of society? What would it look like? What have philosopher's claimed in the past?

b. How does the Individual and the State relate to each other? What rights does the State have over the Individual and vice versa? When should individual civil liberties be curtailed?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own society in accordance with the principles of Justice as Fairness put forth by Rawls. To what extent is it a just society in its basic political and legal structure? In what ways do you consider it an unjust society?

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