Robert Nozick

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Robert Nozick

1. Robert Nozick is a contemporary political philosopher belongs to:

(a) England

(b) Germany

(c) America

(d) Italy

Ans. America

2. The book ' Anarchy, State and Utopia' is written by:

(a) Rawls

(b) Nozick

(c) Hobbes

(d) None of these

Ans. (b)Robert Nozick

3. 'Anarchy, State and Utopia' is a libertarian answer to John Rawls's monumental work:

(a) A Theory of Justice

(b) Political Liberalism

(c) The Law of Peoples

(d) Justice as Fairness

Ans. (a) A Theory of Justice

4. Who among the following is not a social contract theorist:

(a) Locke

(b) Hobbes

(c) Rousseau

(d) Karl Marx

Ans. (d) Karl Marx

5. The book 'Anarchy, State and Utopia' is published in the year:

(a) 1971

(b) 1972

(c) 1974

(d) 1975

Ans. (c) 1974

6. Who treated the right to property as sacrosanct:

(a) Rawls

(b) Locke

(c) Nozick

(d) All of the above

Ans. (c) Nozick

7. Laissez-faire, which means 'leave alone' is a:

(a) Latin word

(b) French word

(c) English word

(d) Greek word

Ans. (b) French word

8. Who called, 'Rights are the product of voluntary exchange':

(a) Rawls

(b) Locke

(c) Nozick

(d) All of the above

Ans. (c) Nozick

9. Nozick is a:

(a) liberal thinker

(b) libertarian thinker

(c) Communitarian thinker

(d) None of these

10. Nozick followed the moral principles of:

(a) Kant

(b) Hegel

(c) Green

(d) Rousseau

Ans. (a) Kant

11. What are the major sources of acquisition insisted by Nozick:

(a) Their selves

(b) The natural world

(c) The things people make by applying themselves to the natural world

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d) All of the above

12. Entitlement theory of justice is given by:

(a) Rawls

(b) Locke

(c) Nozick

(d) All of the above

Ans. (c) Nozick

13. Which among the following is not a principle of justice by Nozick:
(a) Initial acquisition
(b) Voluntary transfer
(c) Rectification
(d) None of these

Ans. (d) None of these