TEST SERIES 2017 TEST 03: JUSTICE, EQUALITY, RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY ALL QUESTIONS ARE COMPULSORY MAX MARKS: 120 MAX TIME: 1.5 hours
1) To what extent the Rawlsian goal of achieving social
justice depend on overarching consensus among cultural religious and ideological groups. Explain. 2) “We believe that as a matter of principle each member of society has an inviolability founded on justice” – Rawls. Comment. 3) Explicate communitarian conception of justice. 4) Examine the relationship between liberty, equality and justice. 5) Examine the relevance of multicultural perspective of rights. 6) Discuss the relationship between development and democracy. 7) Write short notes on a) Participatory Democracy b) Deliberative Democracy 8) Write short notes on a) Affirmative Action b) “Natural rights are nonsense, nonsense upon stilts”.- Bentham