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Which one of the following philosophers distinguished criminal justice from social justice first time in the history of political thought?

Who rejects the idea of equality of welfare since it does not attain any responsibility to people in terms of their expensive tastes and, thus, compensates inequalities resulting from different preferences?

Which libertarian thinker gives the example of Will Chamberlain to support his view that taxation is unjust?

In the ......... approach is that whether a person has a capability, or freedom, to do things or be that s/he has reason to value.

Which philosopher below is not among the supporters of freedom-based idea of social justice?

An understanding of society, where individuals and societal organisations are given roles to satisfy particular duties and actions can in fact be considered as an early reference to what we call in modern societies as........

What are the two major ideas that Aristotle's contribution to the idea of justice?

1. As a philosopher who paved the way heading towards one of the most influential theories of social justice, namely utilitarianism, David Hume is today given a prominent place in not only discussions regarding social justice, but quite a number of different subjects too.
2. It can be said that Bentham and Mill gained a more systematic form to the initial perspective of Hume who considered the just and good action in relation to its possibility of leading to increase the public utility.
3. According to the utilitarian approach to the idea of social justice, a just society is associated with the perspective that the common interest of the society is taken as the prevailing criteria in decision, actions, or policies of the ruling authority.
4. The modern form of utilitarian logic, in essence, does not much differ from its classical definition that is mostly discussed in line with Bentham and Mill’s works.
5. According to Bentham and Mill utilitarianism considers justice in accordance with the aggregative interest of the society, hence it is considered as aggregative theory of justice
6. The focal point of justice, in other words, the essence of justice in the contemporary utilitarian perspective is also the aggregate utility.

Which of the statements related to the utilitarian approach above are correct?

The issue of "justice" is discussed in relation to the concept of “virtue” in the Republic. Who is the writer of this well-known work?

Which philosopher criticized Rawls and Rawlsian model of justice?

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 

1. The utilitarian and the libertarian models seek for equality in subjective well-being of happiness and entitlements respectively
2. Rawlsian model of social justice seeks for fairness to solve the problems of the wealth distribution.
3. One of the distinctive characteristics of the Rawlsian approach to social justice is associated with its institutional perspective.
4. In Rawls’ approach, justice is considered as a “virtue of institutions”
5. The libertarian view considers it as “virtue of individuals” with the purpose of defining just action in the realm of individual’s rational choice.

Which of the statements related to the utilitarian model, the libertarian model and Rawlsian model of social justice above are correct?

Who coined the concept of invisible hand?

Justice in everyday life is not usually considered in relation to the following ones?(Cook, 2006, p.1).

Plato, in his well-known work, The Republic, discussed justice in relation to what?

Rawls identifies five categories of primary goods. Which of the followings is not related with them?

Who is the leading figure of the contemporary libertarian understanding of the idea of justice?

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?

"Poverty must be regarded as a general form of relative deprivation which is the effect of maldistribution of resources."

Which of the following scholars is described by the text given above?

Aristotle did not consider that justice should include the notion of “equal rights”. Instead, he underlined the approach of ......... which does not always mean equality (Russell, 2004, pp. 169) in contemporary meaning of the idea of justice.