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 Gauthier believes that social contract can be based on

   a.   
altriusm and self-interest

   b.   
altriusm alone

   c.   
self-interest alone

   d.   
pity and self-interest

2 points  

QUESTION 2

9. One of the underlying assumptions of the social contract is that people are profoundly a social
species.

 True

 False

2 points  

QUESTION 3

6. Rawls holds that the best way to construct a social contract is to allow people to have full information about themselves while negotiating the terms of the contract.

 True

 False

2 points  

QUESTION 4

1. According to Hobbes, the state of nature is

   a.   
a state of general cooperation

   b.   
a scientific description of the environmant

   c.   
a state of war of all against all

   d.   
none of the above

2 points  

QUESTION 5

8. According to the outcome of the prisoner’s dilemma, both individuals do better if they act purely out of self-interest.

 True

 False

2 points  

QUESTION 6

5. Social contract theorists believe that the social contract is/was a historical fact.

 True

 False

2 points  

QUESTION 7

7. According to Gauthier, human beings are generally altruistic.

 True

 False

2 points  

QUESTION 8

3. Which of these is excluded from Rawls’s veil of ignorance?

   a.   
physical characteristics

   b.   
intyelligence

   c.   
aesthetic preferences

   d.   
desire to live and prosper

2 points  

QUESTION 9

2. According to Rousseau, in the state of nature self-interest is kept in check by

   a.   
pity

   b.   
fear

   c.   
coercion

   d.   
love

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