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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 only caveat to a maximum liberty of the individual?

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

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

4. What is a Totalitarian state?

5. What does Rawls admit might happen within his just society?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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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