1)      What is utilitarianism?

2)      Why are utilitarians consequentialists?

3)      Why are utilitarians impartialists?

4)      Why are utilitarians maximizers?

5)      Explain the concept of diminishing marginal returns.

6)      What are utilitarian responses to the objection that utilitarianism concerns itself
exclusively with consequences and it cannot be squared with justice?

7)      What are the principles of justice according to John Rawls?

8)      What does the Principle of Greatest Equal Liberty specify?

9)      Explain the Principle of Fair Equality of Opportunity.

10)   Explain the Difference Principle.

11)   What is the veil of ignorance? What is its purpose in Rawls's theory?

12)   What are the objections to the veil of ignorance?

13)   What are the objections to the Difference Principle?

14)   What is characteristic of libertarianism?

15)   What are the libertarians attitude towards the welfare state?

16)   Explain two prominent objections against libertarianism.

17)   What are the types of egalitarian approach?

18)   What is the Equality of Welfare? What are the problems of this approach?

19)   What is characteristic of Michael Walzer's approach?

20)   What is the Relational Theory of Equality?


Summarizing question: What are contemporary theories of distributive justice?