CUET Question Paper 2024-MCQs on Justice

1. What is justice primarily concerned with?

a) Ensuring equal treatment for all individuals

b) Exercising authority and power

c) Enforcing laws and regulations

d) Maximizing personal gain

2.Which of the following is not a recognized type of justice?

a) Economic justice

b) Distributive justice

c) Retributive justice

d) Punitive justice

 3.Which theory of justice focuses on the fair distribution of resources and opportunities in society?

a) Utilitarianism

b) Libertarianism

c) Egalitarianism

d) Communitarianism

 4. According to John Rawls, justice should prioritize the well-being of:

a) The majority

 b) The elite

c) The disadvantaged

d) The government

5. Which theory of justice emphasizes the idea of punishment for wrongdoing?

a) Retributive justice

b) Restorative justice

c) Procedural justice

d) Corrective justice

6. According to Aristotle, justice is best described as:

a) Treating everyone equally

b) A means to achieve personal interests

c) An inherent moral virtue

d) Determined by societal norms

Ans. c) An inherent moral virtue

7. Which theory of justice highlights individual rights and limited government intervention?

a) Utilitarianism

b) Libertarianism

c) Egalitarianism

d) Contractarianism

8. The concept of the “veil of ignorance” is associated with which theory of justice?

a) Egalitarianism

b) Utilitarianism

c) Communitarianism

d) Contractarianism

9.  Restorative justice primarily focuses on:

a) Rehabilitating offenders

b) Equitably distributing resources

c) Compensating victims

d) Deterring future crimes

10. Which theory of justice aims to maximize overall happiness for the majority?

a) Utilitarianism

b) Libertarianism

c) Egalitarianism

d) Retributivism

   d) The principle of desert

12.  Which philosopher is associated with the theory of justice as fairness?

   a) Immanuel Kant

   b) John Stuart Mill

   c) Robert Nozick

   d) John Rawls

13. According to utilitarianism, what is the basis for determining justice?

   a) Equal distribution of resources

   b) Social contracts and agreements

   c) Maximizing overall happiness or utility

   d) Respect for individual rights

14. Which theory of justice argues that individuals should be compensated based on their individual contributions to society?

   a) Egalitarianism

   b) Libertarianism

   c) Marxism

   d) Desert-based theory

15. Which philosopher proposed the “veil of ignorance” as a thought experiment to determine principles of justice?

   a) Robert Nozick

   b) John Stuart Mill

   c) John Rawls

   d) Immanuel Kant

16. According to libertarianism, what is the primary role of the state in relation to justice?

   a) Ensuring equal opportunities for all

   b) Redistributing wealth and resources

   c) Protecting individual rights and property

   d) Promoting social and economic equality

17.  According to communitarianism, what should be the basis for determining justice?

   a) Individual rights and freedoms

   b) Social contracts and agreements

   c) Collective values and communal interests

   d) Utility and overall happiness

18. Which theory of justice emphasizes the importance of correcting historical injustices and structural inequalities?

   a) Feminist theory of justice

   b) Marxist theory of justice

   c) Liberal theory of justice

   d) Contractarian theory of justice

20. Which theory of justice focuses on the fair distribution of opportunities and resources based on individual talents and abilities?

    a) Libertarian theory of justice

    b) Egalitarian theory of justice

    c) Merit-based theory of justice

    d) Contractarian theory of justice

21. Who is the first proponent of distributive justice ?

a) Plato

b) Aristotle

c) Rawls

d) All of the above

22.According to whom, ‘ Harmony is the Ultimate value of justice’ ?

a) Plato

b) Aristotle

c) Rawls

d) Socrates

23.Which are the 3 criteria of distributive justice ?

a) equality, liberty, right

b) need, quality, efforts

c) need, equality, right

d) equality, need, merit

24. Who  is the exponent of utilitarianism ?

   a) Jeremy Bentham

   b) John Stuart Mill

   c) John Rawls

   d) Immanuel Kant

25.Who gave the idea of ‘felicific calculus’ ?

   a) Jeremy Bentham

   b) John Stuart Mill

   c) John Rawls

   d) Immanuel Kant

26.Who focused on the importance of qualitative differences between the different types of pain and pleasure ?

   a) Jeremy Bentham

   b) John Stuart Mill

   c) John Rawls

   d) Immanuel Kant

27.Who wrote the book ‘Problems of Political Philosophy’ ?

   a) Barker

   b) C. B. Macpherson

   c) D. D. Raphael

   d) Norman Barry

28.Who are the proponent of classical theory of justice ?

a) Socrates

b) Plato and Aristotle

c) Rawls and Robert Nozick

d) David Miller and Aristotle

29.Which among the following is the basis of Platonic Justice ?

a) Harmony

b) Non-interference

c) Functional Specialization

d) All of the above

29.Aristotle identified how many types of justice ?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 4

d) 5

30. According to Aristotle, Retributive justice deals with which among the following subject?

a) Allocation of Honour and wealth

b) Punishment for crime and payment of damages

c) Regulation of voluntary transactions

d) None of the above

31.Who gave a distinction between ‘positive law’ and ‘natural law’ ?

   a) Barker

   b) C. B. Macpherson

   c) D. D. Raphael

   d) Norman Barry

32. Who among the following are the exponent of Procedural justice?

a) F.A. Hayek

b) Hebert Spencer

c) Milton Friedman and Robert Nozick

d) All of the above

33. Who is related to the idea of ‘Survival of the fittest’?

a) F.A. Hayek

b) Hebert Spencer

c) Milton Friedman

d) Darwin

34.According to whom, ‘Justice is the first virtue of a good society’ ?

a) F.A. Hayek

b) Hebert Spencer

c) Milton Friedman

d) Rawls

35.Who is the famous exponent of Distributive Justice ?

a) F.A. Hayek

b) Hebert Spencer

c) Milton Friedman

d) Rawls

Ans. d)Rawls

36.Who among the following thinker is not an exponent of social contract theory ?

a) Hobbes

b) Locke

c) Rousseau

d) Bentham

37. Who wrote the book ‘A Theory of Justice’ ?

a) F.A. Hayek

b) Hebert Spencer

c) Milton Friedman

d) Rawls

38.Which among  the following is not a principle of Rawls theory of Justice ?

a) Principle of equal liberty

b) Principle of fair equality of opportunity

c) Difference principle

d) Theory of original position

39.Who wrote the book ‘Anarchy, State and Utopia’?

a) Robert Nozick

b) Hebert Spencer

c) Milton Friedman

d) Rawls

40. Who is exponent of nightwatchman state ?

a) Robert Nozick

b) Hebert Spencer

c) Milton Friedman

d) Rawls

41.‘Entitlement Theory of justice’  was given by whom ?

a) Robert Nozick

b) Hebert Spencer

c) Milton Friedman

d) Rawls

42.Who introduced the concept of ‘subltern’ ?

a) Antonio Gramsci

b) Hebert Spencer

c) Milton Friedman

d) Rawls

43. Who among the following are the exponent of Communitarian theory of justice?

a) Will kymlicka

b) Alasdair MacIntyre

c) Michael Sandel and Charles Taylor

d) All of the above

44.Who identified individual as ‘autonomous moral agents’ ?

a) Charles Taylor

b) Alasdair MacIntyre

c) Michael Sandel

d) Michael Waltzer

45.Who wrote the book ‘Sources of the Self’ ?

a) Will kymlicka

b) Alasdair MacIntyre

c) Michael Sandel

d) Charles Taylor