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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 does Rawls think will have to be secured to keep the society a just one?

2. What year was Adam Smith born?

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

4. What is the second principle derived from the Original Position

5. What did wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously say about Democracy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How can we consider A Theory of Justice to be a work-in-progress?

Essay Topic 3

What are the sorts of essential inequalities that Rawls allows to exist in his vision of the just society? Do you agree that they are unavoidable?

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