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Chapter 20 Self Quiz
A Theory of Justice, John Rawls
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Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of people in the “original position”?
They do not know their social status.
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They do not know what “justice” means.
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They do not know what their conception of the good is.
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They do not know how talented they are.
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The principles chosen by those in Rawls’s original position would require which of the following?
social ownership of the means of production
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equality of authority
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equality of basic rights
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all of the above
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The usefulness of the original position is that
it corresponds to the most natural state of human relations.
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all of us have at least a dim memory of what it was like to be in it.
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it ensures that social benefits will be allocated strictly on the basis of merit.
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it makes it impossible to tailor principles to one’s own advantage.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the basic liberties identified by Rawls?
freedom of assembly
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the right to hold personal property
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freedom from arbitrary arrest
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the right to bear arms
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According to Rawls, we can enter the original position
only by leaving society and remaking social institutions from scratch.
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at any time, by simply following a certain procedure.
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only if we somehow forget who we are, which is very rare.
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none of the above
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Rawls’s “original position of equality” corresponds to the state of nature in traditional political theory.
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The principles chosen by people in Rawls’s original position would eliminate all inequality.
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Rawls uses the term “veil of ignorance” to refer to everything that prevents us in ordinary life from seeing what justice requires of us.
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Rawls’s theory is a form of utilitarianism.
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Rawls argues that fairness requires that no people receive different treatment.
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