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6. What is the concept of being unaware of the disadvantages of others and treating them equal?

  • Veil of fairness
  • Veil of ignorance
  • Veil of stupidity

7. Which modern philosoher claimed that our actions should assume that the same action could be done to ourselves

  • James Rachels
  • John Rawls
  • Robert Nozick

8. Who believed that man's life is "solitary, poor, nasty, short and brutish?

  • Thomas Hobbes
  • John Locke
  • Thomas Paine

9. Which philosopher believes in retributive justice?

  • John Rawls
  • James Rachels
  • Robert Nozick

10. What is the theory call that claims that humans lack intrinsic value and must regulate their behaviour by having a ruler

  • Social contract
  • People contract
  • Government contract

11. Who regards justice as a balance between extremes and the sum of virtues

  • Anselm
  • Aristotle
  • Plato

12. Whose life do Christians believe is a pattern for justice?

  • Jesus Christ
  • St Paul
  • Mary

13. Which philosopher compared an approach to punishment to dealing with a broken down car?

  • Jeremy Bentham
  • Bertrand Russell
  • John Rawls

14. Which theory of punishment do utilitarians usually prefer?

  • Rehabilitation
  • Deterrence
  • Retribution

15. Who believes that man should never be a means to an end, he is an "end in himself"

  • Immanuel Kant
  • Rene Descartes
  • Bishop Berkeley

16. Who defines justice as wisdom, courage and discipline working together in harmony?

  • Aquinas
  • Plato
  • Aristole