JUSTICE

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JUSTICE: RAWLS' THEORY OF JUSTICE

1. Justice is derived from the word ‘jus’, which is a:

a) Latin word

b) Greek word

c) French word

d) English word

Ans. a) Latin word

2. Who said, “Justice means keeping one’s word”:

a) Cephalus

b) Polemarchus

c) Glaucon

d) Thrasymachus

Ans. a) Cephalus

3. According to whom, “justice means helping a friend and harming the enemy”:

a) Cephalus

b) Polemarchus

c) Glaucon

d) Thrasymachus

Ans. b) Polemarchus

4. Who among the following said 'justice as the first virtue of social institutions':

a)  Rawls

b) Cicero

c)  Bacon

d) Aristotle

Ans. a)  Rawls

5. Plato described justice as harmony in which of his book:

a) the Republic
b) the Politics
c) the Statesman
d) None of these

Ans. a) the Republic

6.  Which among the following is a political dimension of justice:

a) a classless society

b) elimination of all kinds of discrimination

c) one person-one vote

d) universal brotherhood

Ans. c) one person-one vote

7. Who among the following is not a proponent of the anarchist theory of justice:

  

a) Godwin

b) Proudhon

c) Tolstoy

d) Barker

Ans. d) Barker

8. The book ' What is Property? 'is written by:

a) Godwin

b) Proudhon

c) Tolstoy

d) Barker

Ans. b) Proudhon

9. Who among the following is not a libertarian thinker of justice:

a) Hayek 

b) Nozick

c) Rawls

d) None of these

Ans. d) None of these

10. The book ' The Constitution of Liberty, 1960 ' is written by:

a) Hayek 

b) Nozick

c) Rawls

d) None of these

Ans. a) Hayek 

11. Which among the following school of thought describe -Justice is: ''take in proportion to what you give": 

a) Marxist
b) Anarchist
c) Democratic-socialist
d) None of the above

Ans. c) Democratic-socialist

12. Which among the following type of justice is otherly known as 'economic justice':

a) Distributive justice

b) Procedural justice

c) Retributive justice

d) Restorative justice

Ans. a) Distributive justice

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

a) Hayek 

b) Nozick

c) Rawls

d) None of these

Ans. b) Nozick

14. Which among the following type of justice is otherly known as 'corrective justice':

a) Distributive justice

b) Procedural justice

c) Retributive justice

d) Restorative justice

Ans. d) Restorative justice

15. Entitlement theory of justice is propounded by:

a) Hayek 

b) Nozick

c) Rawls

d) None of these

Ans. b) Nozick


16. The book " Liberalism and Limits of Justice " is written by:

a) Hayek 

b) Nozick

c) Rawls
d) Sandel


Ans. d) Sandel

17.  The concept of  '' Fallacies of social justice '' is related to:

a) Hayek 

b) Nozick

c) Rawls
d) Sandel

Ans. a) Hayek 


18. A revised version of Rawls' theory was published in which of his following book:

a) Political Liberalism
b) A Theory of Justice
c) Distributive Justice
d) None of the above

Ans. c) Distributive Justice

19.  Who has given the concept of '' Night-watchman state ":

a) Tolstoy 

b) Nozick

c) Rawls
d) Sandel

Ans. b) Nozick

20.  Who has called "Justice as fairness":

a) Hayek 

b) Nozick

c) Rawls
d) Sandel

Ans. c) Rawls