Philosophy 001 - Introduction to Philosophy » Spring 2021 » Chapter 8 Quiz

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Question #1
What, according to Hobbes, is the chief end of forming a commonwealth?
A.   Preservation of property
B.   Survival of the fittest
C.   Survival
D.   Development of morality
Question #2
Who held that justice was each person doing the job appropriate to their class?
A.   Rousseau
B.   Marx
C.   Plato
D.   Rawls
Question #3
According to Nozick, Rawls develops what kind of theory of justice?
A.   Formal
B.   Historical
C.   Patterned
D.   Socialist
Question #4
What philosopher wrote that life without government would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"?
A.   Rawls
B.   Marx
C.   Locke
D.   Hobbes
Question #5
Which of the following is a concept in the philosophy of John Rawls that is similar to the concept of the state of nature?
A.   The natural law
B.   The original position
C.   Natural rights
D.   Social utility
Question #6
Which of the following philosophers argued that the individual will only fully develop if he or she embraces the social practices of the state?
A.   Marx
B.   Hegel
C.   Mill
D.   Rawls
Question #7
What philosopher argues that the just society is one that distributes benefits and burdens in whatever way will produce the greatest social benefits and the least social harms?
A.   Hobbes
B.   Mill
C.   Nozick
D.   Marx
Question #8
In defense of civil disobedience, Martin Luther King Jr. argued that
A.   Violent resistance to an unjust law is morally justified
B.   The law cannot be used to enforce morality
C.   An unjust law is no law at all
D.   All laws, even if they are unjust, should be followed
Question #9
Robert Nozick was a defender of welfare liberalism
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #10
Hegel is a communitarian philosopher
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE

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