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.   Development of morality
B.   Preservation of property
C.   Survival of the fittest
D.   Survival
Question #2
Who held that justice was each person doing the job appropriate to their class?
A.   Rawls
B.   Plato
C.   Marx
D.   Rousseau
Question #3
According to Nozick, Rawls develops what kind of theory of justice?
A.   Patterned
B.   Socialist
C.   Formal
D.   Historical
Question #4
What philosopher wrote that life without government would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"?
A.   Hobbes
B.   Rawls
C.   Marx
D.   Locke
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.   Natural rights
C.   Social utility
D.   The original position
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.   Rawls
B.   Mill
C.   Hegel
D.   Marx
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.   Mill
B.   Marx
C.   Nozick
D.   Hobbes
Question #8
In defense of civil disobedience, Martin Luther King Jr. argued that
A.   All laws, even if they are unjust, should be followed
B.   Violent resistance to an unjust law is morally justified
C.   An unjust law is no law at all
D.   The law cannot be used to enforce morality
Question #9
Robert Nozick was a defender of welfare liberalism
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #10
Hegel is a communitarian philosopher
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE

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