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

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

3. What is a Totalitarian state?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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