philosophy1

a. Libertarian and paretian economics suggest too few limits on what people can agree to in loan contracts, limits that promote freedom and equality.

b. Libertarian and paretian economics suggest too many limits on what people can agree to in contracts for loans creating inequality between lender and borrower.

c. Libertarian and paretian economics suggest exactly the right limits on what people can agree to in loan contracts, but get the moral reasons wrong.

d. Libertarian and paretian economics suggest too many limits on what people can agree to in contracts for loans limiting their freedom.

2) Which of the following is not an aspect of essence alienation according to Marx

a. That numerical analysis ignores the fundamentally human aspects of labor

b. That workers are alienated from the other aspects of who they are as persons

c. That labor eliminates the essentially rational and creative aspects of human beings

d. That necessary goods, which are essential for life (e.g. food and shelter), are not guaranteed by work

3) Which of the following is not a reason why Friedman argues that businesses do not have a social responsibility?

a. Social responsibility encourages the view that profit is evil

b. Social responsibility for businesses is an inefficient means of pursuing social goods

c. Social responsibility gives power over public goods to unaccountable bureaucrats

d. Social responsibility runs contrary to our natural self-interest

4) What does Sandel mean by saying that a market society faces a problem of unjust coercion?

a. Market societies force people to sell everything whether or not they consent to put them for sale, so that they can have more money

b. Market societies force people to buy products they do not wish to maintain a good public image

c. Many goods that are bought and sold in a market economy are transformed and degraded by being put for sale

d. Having more categories of goods in the market makes money matter more, so the costs of not having money rise to force people by necessity of circumstances

5) According to Sandel, the corruption particular to market societies is fundamentally which of the following?

a. The way that products become lower quality, spiraling downward because of price competition and planned obsolescence

b. The way that those with wealth are able to force the poor to serve them, conflicting with democratic ideals of freedom

c. The way that humans beings in market societies become less morally good, becoming greedy and obsessed with money or social status

d. The way that some goods change when they are bought or sold, undermining what makes them valuable

6) How does Mills characterize non-ideal theory?

a. Non-ideal theory is based in universal and objective, but not abstract, moral principles applied in response to the injustices created by existing social practices.

b. Non-ideal theory is not what we would do in a morally perfect world, but it based on different principles for what we should do in this one.

c. Non-ideal theory is based on the idea that sometimes we should do what is morally wrong for the sake of a greater moral good like ending oppression.

d. Non-ideal theory is the application of abstract moral principles (e.g. respect humanity) to non-ideal circumstances.