What is Rawls's veil of ignorance?
A metaphorical term for the way in which humans often fail to empathize with one another.
2.
A description of the tools used by governments to keep their people ignorant.
3.
An imaginary device for ensuring that contractors make fair choices.
4.
An objection to contractarianism.
QUESTION 2
What is the term for a situation in which everyone is made worse off when all pursue self-interest?
1.
Paradox of hedonism.
2.
Prisoner's dilemma.
3.
Egoistic pitfall.
4.
Mutually assured destruction.
QUESTION 3
What was Thomas Hobbes's term for a condition in which there is no government to maintain order?
1.
The lawless condition.
2.
The state of nature.
3.
The before time.
4.
The state of Eden.
QUESTION 4
What did Hobbes think is the only way to escape from the condition mentioned in the previous question?
1.
For each person, individually, to strive to morally improve himself.
2.
For people to accept a religious faith.
3.
To mutually agree on a set of rules for social cooperation.
4.
Hobbes did not think such a state could be truly escaped.
QUESTION 5
According to Hobbes, you always have duty to obey the law.
True
False
QUESTION 6
According to Hobbes, being moral is consistent with being self-interested.
True
False
QUESTION 7
Which one of the following is a problem for social contract theory?
1. The free-rider problem.
2. It is overly demanding.
3. It requires self-sacrifice.
4. All of the above.
QUESTION 8
What, according to Hobbes, is the right of nature?
1. The liberty every person has to use their own power for self-preservation.
2. The liberty to maximize the amount of goodness in the world.
3. The duty to universalize one's maxims.
4. None of the above.