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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 does Rawls claim is necessary for fair elections?

3. How many principles of justice does the Original Position later result in?

4. Where does the word and idea 'Democracy' come from?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Does Rawls believe in trickle-down wealth (the Right-wing) or state support and welfare (the Left Wing). Or is his views a marriage of the two?

Essay Topic 3

Contrast Rawls’ Original Position of a an individual wanting fairness over all things with Nietzsche's view that human nature has the drive to be strong (the Will-to-Power).

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