IB ACIO Polityfreedom — practice questions

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Negative liberty is best summarised by which question?Read the answer and worked solution →Which thinker does the chapter associate with the positive-liberty tradition?Read the answer and worked solution →True or false: freedomRead the answer and worked solution →Match each idea of libertyRead the answer and worked solution →

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Negative liberty is best summarised by which question?

How does my freedom benefit my community?
Why must I obey laws I personally disagree with?
What does economic security add to freedom?
Over what area of life am I really master?

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Correct answer: D. Over what area of life am I really master?

§2.5 frames negative liberty around 'Over what area am I the master?' Positive liberty answers a different question ('Who governs me?').

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Which thinker does the chapter associate with the positive-liberty tradition?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the social-contract theorist
John Stuart Mill, author of On Liberty
Voltaire, defender of others' free speech
Aubrey Menon, author of Ramayana Retold

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Correct answer: A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the social-contract theorist

§2.5 lists Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Gandhi and Aurobindo in the positive-liberty tradition. Mill is the central negative-liberty thinker Voltaire is quoted on free expression Menon authored Ramayana Retold.

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True or false: freedom

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Questions

Statement is true
Yes
Statement
Living together requires some rules and regulation.
Statement is true
Yes
Statement
Some constraints on individual freedom are socially necessary.
Statement is true
No
Statement
Freedom means the total absence of every rule.
Statement is true
Yes
Statement
The harm principle is one basis for limiting freedom.

Instructions

Decide whether each statement about freedom is true or false.

_Source: syllabus Political Theory Ch2 Freedom, Chapter 2 Freedom_

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