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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Two Principles of Justice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the father of Utilitarianism?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) David Hume.
(c) Spinoza.
(d) Karl Marx.

2. What is John Stuart Mill's Theory of Higher Pleasures?
(a) The belief that going to church is the highest form of pleasure.
(b) The belief that one should spend the most money on the finest things in life.
(c) The belief that feelings are better pleasures than stability, wealth or objects.
(d) The belief that intellectualism, refinement and poetry are better pleasures that dancing, lust or wealth.

3. Where did the early Intuitionists believe they got their appreciation of morals, rights and wrongs or fairness?
(a) The king.
(b) God.
(c) Nature.
(d) Their parents.

4. Why does Utilitarian thinking not really understand the difference between persons?
(a) Utilitarianism is never applied to the individual.
(b) It perceives persons only as voters.
(c) Utilitarianism is never applied to the society.
(d) That different people’s situations mean different levels of happiness, contentment or suffering.

5. What is the essential problem of Intuitionism?
(a) Some people do not seem to act with a natural morality.
(b) Many philosophers don't agree with it.
(c) It doesn't support a healthy economy.
(d) It makes defending one’s country more difficult.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what era was the theory of the Social Contract in favor?

2. How does the ignorant chooser know what is fair and what is not, according to Rawls?

3. What does Rawls accept about his own theory?

4. What does Rawls think a person would decide about their society if they had any choice?

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

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