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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 year was Adam Smith born?

2. What is a Totalitarian state?

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

4. What does Rawls claim is necessary for fair elections?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rousseau once stated that man is 'given rights when his liberties are taken away'. Evaluate this remark with light to Rawls' theories.

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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