Question 1

Zeno rejected Stoicism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 2

Who said that the state was "prior to the individual"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Rawls
B)   Aristotle
C)   Plato
D)   Bentham B

Question 3

Do you believe that the state should provide "public goods"¾goods that can be used by as many people as wish to use them without any diminution in their availability, and which you cannot exclude people from using? (One example of such a good is the light from lighthouses.) If yes, would you force people to pay for these goods through taxation, even if they did not want them? If no, how else could such goods ever be provided, given their nature?

Accepted Answer

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Which two needs does Hobbes believes drive human action?

Accepted Answer

A)   Personal gain and love of others
B)   Personal gain and survival
C)   Love of others and survival
D)   Love of others and desire for peace

Question 5

Should there be any limits on what the state can do? Would you answer depend on the circumstances in which the state was acting, with it varying between times of peace, and times of war, for example?

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The answer of Should there be any limits on what...

Question 6

What, according to Hobbes, is the "chief end" of men uniting into a commonwealth?

Accepted Answer

A)   Survival
B)   Preservation of property
C)   Peace
D)   Survival of the fittest

Question 7

Rousseau was a social contract theorist.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Plato believed that individuals were naturally equal.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Thomas Jefferson was a disciple of

Accepted Answer

A)   Locke
B)   Rosseau
C)   Hobbes
D)   Plato

Question 10

What assumptions about human nature does Rawls make in developing his theory of justice using the artifice of the original position? Do you think that these assumptions are justified, or not? If so, do you think that the principles of justice that Rawls develops are binding on persons who were not in the original position (i.e., us)? Why, or why not? If not, do you think that the inadequacy of these assumptions undercut Rawls' views? Explain and justify your answer.

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The answer of What assumptions about human nature does Rawls...

Question 11

Drawing from the Crito dialogue (discussed in Chapter 1) do you believe that you have any obligation to obey the state? Support your answer by reference to the theories of at least two of the following: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

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The answer of Drawing from the Crito dialogue (discussed in...

Question 12

____________________ argues that people should realize their human potential through productive work that exercises their capacities.

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The answer of ____________________ argues that people should realize their...

Question 13

Who wrote of the "General Will"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Locke
B)   Rosseau
C)   Hobbes
D)   Plato

Question 14

____________________ ____________________ is the philosophical study of society and its problems.

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The answer of ____________________ ____________________ is the philosophical study of...

Question 15

Hegel believed that the state was unnatural.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Who held that justice consisted of each person doing the job appropriate to their class?

Accepted Answer

A)   Rawls
B)   Sandel
C)   Aristotle
D)   Plato

Question 17

____________________ ____________________ says that individuals give up certain rights and liberties to the state, which guarantees other rights.

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The answer of ____________________ ____________________ says that individuals give up...

Question 18

According to Nozick, what sort of theory of justice does Rawls develop?

Accepted Answer

A)   Formal
B)   Patterned
C)   Historical
D)   Socialist

Question 19

Hobbes believed that the authority of the state was justified.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The view that the wealth that is produced in society belongs to everyone in society is

Accepted Answer

A)   Formal Egalitarianism
B)   Substantive egalitarianism
C)   Libertarianism
D)   Socialism

Exam 8: Social and Political Philosophy

Zeno rejected Stoicism.

Who said that the state was "prior to the individual"?

Which two needs does Hobbes believes drive human action?

Should there be any limits on what the state can do? Would you answer depend on the circumstances in which the state was acting, with it varying between times of peace, and times of war, for example?

What, according to Hobbes, is the "chief end" of men uniting into a commonwealth?

Rousseau was a social contract theorist.

Plato believed that individuals were naturally equal.

Thomas Jefferson was a disciple of

Drawing from the Crito dialogue (discussed in Chapter 1) do you believe that you have any obligation to obey the state? Support your answer by reference to the theories of at least two of the following: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

____________________ argues that people should realize their human potential through productive work that exercises their capacities.

Who wrote of the "General Will"?

____________________ ____________________ is the philosophical study of society and its problems.

Hegel believed that the state was unnatural.

Who held that justice consisted of each person doing the job appropriate to their class?

____________________ ____________________ says that individuals give up certain rights and liberties to the state, which guarantees other rights.

According to Nozick, what sort of theory of justice does Rawls develop?

Hobbes believed that the authority of the state was justified.

The view that the wealth that is produced in society belongs to everyone in society is

is the philosophical study of society and its problems.

says that individuals give up certain rights and liberties to the state, which guarantees other rights.