Question 1. Rawls and Nozick both agree that ...

a) ... the law should embody no conception of the good life.

b) ... in the name of liberty, the government must provide basic necessities to those unable to procure them.

c) ... private institutions are not subject to principles of justice.

d) ... redistributive taxation is unjust unless it remedies some past injustice.

e) ... if the majority enacts it after sustained public debate, publicly funded healthcare is just.

Question 2. Which of the following philosophers take the good to be prior to the right?

a) Rawls.

b) Kant.

c) Aristotle.

d) a and b are correct.

e) a and c are correct.

Question 3. The philosophies of John Locke and Robert Nozick can be said to diverge in which of the following respects:

a) Nozick defends strict constraints on what the majority can do whereas Locke defends no constraints.

b) Locke derives individual rights from the good of society as a whole, whereas Nozick derives rights from individual self-ownership.

c) For Locke, the right to life is inalienable, whereas for Nozick, the right may be surrendered by its possessor.

d) Nozick defends a pre-political (natural) right to property whereas Locke does not.

e) Locke claims that the purpose of government is to secure rights, whereas Nozick claims that its purpose is to secure wealth.