The Communitarian  concept of justice

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Multiple Choice:  The communitarian  concept of justice (Sandel) -Considers certain capabilities to be essential to our functioning as flourishing human beings and that these must be assured for all citizens of a just society

-Argues that the well-being of a community takes precedence over individual liberty and over the socio-economic welfare of its members.

– Considers each person to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others, and maintains that social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone’s advantage, especially the worst off, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all.

– All of the above

– None of the above

 

2.  Nussbaum

  • Considers public utility, understood as a feeling of usefulness or agreeability, as the sole origin of justice and that all values, including that of justice, are derived from our passions.
  • Considers certain “functional capabilities” such as bodily health and the development and exercise of practical reason to be essential to our functioning as flourishing human beings and that these must be assured for all citizens of a just society.
  • Argues that the well-being of a community takes precedence over individual liberty and over the socio-economic welfare of its members.
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

3.  According to Machiavelli

  • A ruler cannot govern in accordance with justice and expect to survive
  • Republics that wish to remain uncorrupted must maintain an uncorrupted religion and their rulers must see to it that religious ceremonies are always venerated
  • It is not necessary that rulers be religious themselves
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

4.  Nozick believes

Any distribution , no matter how unequal, is just if it arises from legitimate means

Distributions are just if they follow from the appropriation of something not owned in circumstances where the acquisition would not disadvantage others.

Distributions are just if they follow from the voluntary transfer of ownership of holdings to someone else.

Distributions are just if they follow from the rectification of past injustices in the acquisition or transfer of holdings

All of the above

 

5.  Absent a bifurcated proceeding, Capital Punishment by a state

Violates the 10th Amendment

Is constitutional

Violates Due Process

Violates the 8th amendment

Violates Equal protection