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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 the second principle derived from the Original Position

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In his final claim that constitutional democracy is the natural expression of his theory, how far can we say Rawls really goes in challenging the status quo, if at all?

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

Is Rawls’ theory of the Original Position (the Waiting Room argument) idealist in nature? How does it survive when we take away an a priori foundation for morality?

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