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A quiz on utilitarianism and social contract theory with relation to jurisprudence

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Question 1 / 16

What theory seemed a plausible candidate as a secular theory of justice?

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Question 2 / 16

Who defined Utilitarianism as "[t]he ethical theory...that answers all questions of what to do, what to admire, or how to live, in terms of maximising utility or happiness"?

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Question 3 / 16

What is utility?

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Question 4 / 16

What type of utilitarianism claims that utilitarian philosophy can justify and support many of the basic rights?

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Question 5 / 16

Which type of utilitarianism emphasises the decision about what is most useful or has greatest utility must follow or be generalised in favour of certain rules to be followed by all?

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Question 6 / 16

Which theorists combined rule utilitarianism and preference utilitarianism?

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Question 7 / 16

What theorist is associated with the harm principle?

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Question 8 / 16

Which of these is not a level of utilitarianism according to Hare?

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Question 9 / 16

Under whose theory is it possible to justify genocide?

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Question 10 / 16

Which theory states that nobody is left worse off, and some may be better off, as a result of free exercise supply and demand?

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Question 11 / 16

What does politikon zoon mean?

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Question 12 / 16

Who explicitly articulated the idea of an original contract?

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Question 13 / 16

Whose theory developed the idea of the social contract limiting the government?

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Question 14 / 16

Whose idea of social contract theory justified the all power sovereign?

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Question 15 / 16

What are Hobbes' dates?

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Question 16 / 16

Which of Hobbes' contemporaries rejected Hobbes' view of man's natural state as marked by fear and conflict?

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