Quiz: John Rawls

When was John Rawls born?

• 1921, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
• 1930, El Biar, Algeria.
• 1929, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• 1913, Mondovi, Algeria.

When did John Rawls die?

• 2002, Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 2000, Boston, United States.
• 2004, Paris, France.
• 1976, Freiburg, Germany.

What is John Rawls known for?

• A Theory of Justice, the veil of ignorance, and justice as fairness.
• The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel, and the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
• Being and Time, Dasein, being toward death, and the later critique of technology.
• The picture theory of meaning, language games, family resemblance, and private language arguments.

Which school of thought was John Rawls part of?

• Liberal political philosophy.
• Post structuralism; histories of systems of thought.
• Phenomenology turned to ontology; existentialism's source.
• Existentialism.

True or false: American thinker whose Theory of Justice of 1971 revived political philosophy.

• True
• False