1. EITHER (a) How should democrats respond when democracies make
bad decisions?
OR (b) Should all countries be democratic?
2. Are deliberative conceptions of democracy objectionably utopian?
3. ‘Democratic government is government by majority rule.’ Discuss.
4. Is there anything more to equality than the distribution of resources?
5. EITHER (a) ‘All theories of equality agree that we should identify the
worst off and take appropriate steps to improve their position.’ Discuss.
OR (b) ‘Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they
are…to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged’ (RAWLS). Discuss.
6. Can self-ownership be compatible with equality?
7. Does labouring on an object give you ownership rights over it?
8. EITHER (a) ‘One believes himself the others’ master, and yet is more a
slave than they’ (ROUSSEAU). Discuss.
OR (b) ‘Liberty, or freedom, signifieth properly the absence of opposition’
(HOBBES). Discuss.
9. ‘To lack the money to pay for something might be unfortunate, but it is not
unfreedom.’ Discuss.
10. Can there be ‘internal’ constraints on freedom?