1 Either (a) ‘Egalitarianism is fundamentally misguided because it commits us
to making better-off people worse-off, to no one’s advantage.’
Discuss.
Or (b) Do defenders of distributive equality unfairly neglect social
equality?
2 Can legitimate political authority be established by tacit consent?
3 Is political philosophy applied ethics?
4 Either (a) What is the strongest argument in favour of negative rather than
positive liberty?
Or (b) ‘Those who are poor, just like those who only have many trivial
options, are unfree.’ Discuss.
5 Either (a) What are Rawls’s two Principles of Justice? Are Rawls’s
arguments in their defence convincing?
Or (b) What ethos should guide the private decisions of citizens in a
society regulated by Rawls’s principles of justice?
6 Critically assess Nozick’s claim that taxation is on a par with forced labour.
7 Is paternalism wrong? If so, why? If not, why not?
8 What’s wrong with a tyranny of the majority?
9 Can I have political obligations to a group that is not organized as a state?
10 What is the strongest argument in favour of democracy? Does it work?