Deck 3: Freedom and Justice

Question 1

What does J. S. Mill base his theory of liberty on?

A) Utilitarianism
B) Rights
C) Rational choice theory
D) Political obligation

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following are constraints on our freedom according to the negative theory of liberty? Please select all that apply.

A) Immorality
B) Physical coercion
C) Physical incapacity
D) Imprisonment

Answer 2

B, C, D

Question 3

MacCallum argues that all genuine statements about freedom must contain three elements involving X (the agent), Y (the constraint), and Z (the ______ ).

Answer 3

objective

Question 4

Isaiah Berlin was an advocate of which of the following? Please select all that apply.

A) Positive liberty
B) Negative liberty
C) Liberalism
D) Socialism

Question 5

Mill advocates intervening only when an action is self-regarding.

Question 6

Mill would seek to ban smoking on which of the following grounds? Please select all that apply.

A) It harms others
B) It causes ill health to the smoker
C) It is in the interests of the smoker to stop
D) Smoking causes pollution

Question 7

What is Rawls's device for ensuring that individuals do not know what their position in society will be?

A) The original position
B) The social contract
C) The veil of ignorance
D) Reflexive equilibrium

Question 8

Robert Nozick criticizes Rawls's theory of justice for which of the following reasons? Please select all that apply.

A) Being too egalitarian
B) Adopting an end-state rather than a historical principle
C) Not protecting property
D) Putting liberty before equality

Question 9

Intergenerational justice might clash with intragenerational justice.

Question 10

Which of the following represent terms of interest to green political thought? Please select all that apply.

A) Intergenerational justice
B) biodiversity
C) ecosystem
D) Reflective equilibrium

Question 11

Cosmopolitan theories of climate change and justice that see industrialized states as ultimately responsible for existing environmental problems have succeeded in their campaign for compensation.

Question 12

Which of the following claims that states and societies have a moral duty towards foreigners (non-citizens)?

A) Cosmopolitanism
B) Communitarianism
C) Socialism
D) Green political thought

Question 13

Which of the following are criticisms advanced by communitarianism against cosmopolitan theories on global justice?

A) Cosmopolitan theories on global justice are simply unrealizable.
B) The idea of global citizenship is too far-fetched.
C) The cosmopolitan conception of distributive justice is desirable.
D) The idea of sovereignty is illusory.

Question 14

Which of the following is likely to influence our understanding of freedom and justice?

A) Globalization
B) Regionalism
C) Interdependence
D) Climate change