1. In a society, each adult has one and only one vote. Is it a
democracy?
2. In a democracy is it better to try to achieve consensus or to agree to
disagree?
3. EITHER (a) Are the poor unfree? If not, why not? If so, so what?
OR (b) Can adapting to interferences make us free?
4. What, if anything, is wrong with paternalism?
5. ‘Inequalities in wealth are important, but only because they reflect
and perpetuate social inequalities.’ Do you agree?
6. Is a failure to implement policies of positive discrimination
discriminatory?
7. Does the concept of self-ownership vindicate absolute property
rights?
8. ‘Is it not the supreme and most insidious exercise of power to
prevent people, to whatever degree, from having grievances by
shaping their perceptions, cognitions and preferences, in such a way
that they accept their role in the existing order of things, either
because they can see or imagine no alternative to it, or because
they see it as natural and unchangeable?’ Discuss.
9. EITHER (a) How might the notion of power help us to understand
the political significance of schooling?
OR (b) How might the notion of power help us to understand the
political significance of prisons?
10. ‘Establishing principles of justice for the basic structure of a wellordered society is an important task for political philosophers.’ Is it?