A Theory of Justice Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Theory of Justice Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 a Totalitarian state?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How can we consider A Theory of Justice to be a work-in-progress?

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