Deneme Sınavı Soruları

Which of the following are among Nozick’s theory of social justice?

1. if a person chooses to do something, s/he is entitled to the outcomes of her/his actions, whether they are desirable or undesirable
2. as each person is considered to be responsible for this/her own action, poor are not seen as “victims”, rather as “rational actors” who deserve their particular poor conditions as a consequence of their own responsibility
3. redistributing the earnings of an individual through taxation is unjust since redistribution of one’s earning to those who did not contribute to the production actually constitutes a theft
4. unequal distribution of wealth is legitimate as justice is to give people their due and those dues differ according to the commitment of a person to achieve his/her goal 

According to Hobbes, which of the followings constitutes the first phase of the causes that creates the state of war?

Which one of the following administrative systems had already become a widespread form of government in the western Europe in the early years of the 16th Century?

1. The roots of Honneth’s approach, in fact, lie in Hegel’s model of identity.
2. Fraser’s approach is based on the concept of “bivalent collectivity”.
3. Honneth and Fraser agree that recognition and redistribution are indispensable parts of social justice.
4. Honneth gives a fundamental emphasis to recognition and treating redistribution as a derivative subject.
5. Fraser perceives both recognition and redistribution as co-fundamental subjects which do not have priority over each other.

Which of the statements related to Fraser and Honneth above are correct?

Which political thinker stated that a ruler must be both a lion and a fox at the same time: he must know in which case cunning and trick yield better results than directly using violence?

Which of the following can not be pointed out one of the characteristics looking of the classical and contemporary utilitarian perspective of social justice?

1. It is usual to observe that distributional or social justice and its ethical background, plays a prominent role in defining the content and scope of the criminal or judicial justice.
2. “Justice as social” is frequently referred as “justice beyond the courtroom”.
3. Without its philosophically ethical underpinnings are formed, any issue concerning legal arrangements within the scope criminal justice cannot be maintained.
4. Inviolableness of one’s private property in legal arrangements cannot be proposed, developed and socially sustained without an ethical and philosophical justification regarding why one’s private property is untouchable.

Which of the statements above demonstrate the lexical priority of social or distributional justice over the criminal or judicial justice?

Which of the following reflect Marx’s view on surplus value?

1. Surplus value is the result of capitalism.
2. Profit is not to be condemned so long as it is shared.
3. The value that workers produce above their wages.
4. Surplus value is the profit gained by exploiting the workers’ labor.

Which of the following view is different between Marxism and anarchism?

Which of the following political thought do Spinoza and Hobbes share?

"Bodin was not concerned with the stage of the constitutive power-violence but the stage of maintaining legitimacy and acceptance."

According to the statement above, which of the followings can Bodin be considered to oppose?

According to Machiavelli, what is man's nature like?

Which of the followings had led to different types of administrations for free population of Athens which had four strata?

"they do not aim to find out how things are, but attempt to convince us how things ought to be."

What aspect of political thoughts is being defined in the above description?

Which one of the followings cannot be pointed out as a source based on which Epicurus developed his philosophy?

According to which theory the social life can be understood with reference to the discourses and the discursive frameworks?

Which of the following is similar to Christianity in terms of its view on matters of slavery?

Whose kingship is given as a model in the Bible concerning obedience?

What does the statement "The Platonic ideal “philosopher-king” turns into “prophet-king” in the hands of Al-Fârâbî" imply about Al-Farabi?