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WorksheetsPhilo Missed Questions
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 60secs
The 'Fair Equality of Opportunity' part of Rawls's second principle primarily requires that:
All citizens must start life with the same amount of money and resources.
Careers and positions must be formally open to all, regardless of race, but without any other support.
Offices and positions must be open to all, and everyone must have a genuine and fair chance to attain them, regardless of social background.
The government must guarantee a job for every citizen who wants one.
Ricoeur asserts that the personal act of charity (The Neighbor) should serve as a 'permanent critique' of social relationships. What does this mean?
It means social relationships are inherently wrong and should be abolished.
It means personal compassion must constantly remind institutions to stay focused on serving the persons they were created for.
It means individuals should publicly criticize government officials at all times.
It means one's personal life must be entirely separate from one's public life and roles.
Why does Amartya Sen consider democracy to be a vital instrument for human development?
Because democracy always results in the fastest possible economic growth.
Because it allows people to achieve a life worthy of their dignity and gives them a voice to demand their basic entitlements.
Because it forces all citizens to agree on a single, universally defined conception of the 'good life.'
Because it completely eliminates poverty and famine through its voting process.
A person has lived a life of profound generosity and moral integrity. When facing death, Karl Rahner would view this death as:
A. A passive, unexpected evil.
B. A meaningless loss of potentiality.
C. A final, definitive act of self-affirmation.
D. A failure of human freedom.
Which term describes death as a possibility that "cannot be taken over by another" and is "his and his alone"?
Nonrepresentational.
Objective.
Linear.
Secular.
The text suggests that true love, realized in freedom, can never be hindered by death because:
Death is merely a social inconvenience.
Love is always united with the other through the Absolute.
The individual loses all potentiality for being.
The they-self has already triumphed.
