Consider the terms and ideas like law, convention, authority, legitimacy and punishment ‘I must be no man at all, if fact, and she must be the man, if power like this can rest in her and go unpunished’- Kreon rationalized his verdict towards Antigone in this way. How did Kreon and Antigone establish and maintain/ or attempted to maintain their views of authority and legitimacy? Justify your answer using Max Weber’s analyses of power, domination and authority. What are your thoughts on Kreon’s justification of his authority?
Consider the terms and ideas like law, convention, authority, legitimacy and punishment
‘I must be no man at all, if fact, and she must be the man, if power like this can rest in her and go
unpunished’- Kreon rationalized his verdict towards Antigone in this way. How did Kreon and Antigone
establish and maintain/ or attempted to maintain their views of authority and legitimacy? Justify your
answer using Max Weber’s analyses of power, domination and authority.
What are your thoughts on Kreon’s justification of his authority?
In the story, we see Kreon as an ideal illustration of the state’s role in imposing punishments in a society.
What are some of such punishments Kreon imposes on different characters in the drama? Evaluate whether
these punishments are arbitrary or legal using Thomas Hobbes’s theories of punishment and reward.
What are your thoughts on the existence of punishments in a society?
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