To what degree does Sophocles’s play, Antigone, concern and support executive power and its legal legitimacy?

5195 LAW Theories of Law, Assignment 202015195LAW Theories of Law Assignment

20 Assignment Question Antigone: “What law of the mighty gods have I transgressed?”

(l 1013)To what degree does Sophocles’s play, Antigone, concern and support executive power and its legal legitimacy?

Discuss this question in light of the concept of law developed by one of the theorists listed below. As a minor point to be considered at the end of your analysis, does Antigone and its themesor lessons have any relevance to a legal issue concerning executive powering Australia today?

In answering this question:

You must use ONEof the following theorists:

Aquinas(as a natural law theorist);

Finnis(as a natural law theorist);

Fuller(as a natural law theorist);

Bentham(as a rights theorist);

Douzinas(as a rights theorist);

Hobbes(as a social contract or social justice theorist);

Rawls(as a social contract or social justice theorist);

Nozick(as a social contract or social justice theorist);

You may, in using and focussing on your ONE theorist,mention other theorists for minor comparison or contrast

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