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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 did wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously say about Democracy?

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

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

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

5. What is a Totalitarian state?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In his theory of Justice as Fairness, Rawls claims that some degree of economic inequality would be acceptable. Consider the claims of the recent 99% and Occupy movements and the Global Banking Crisis. Could Rawls still make this claim?

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