Assignment title: Management
Course assignments Course essay Write an essay comprising 5-7 pages (Times new roman, 12 p) where you discuss and try to answer the question on the basis of the course literature. Why should we obey the law?What reasons are there actually for abiding by the law, and are any of these reasons really sufficiently convincing to obligate us to obey the law? General guidelines: Do not only aim to present the relevant arguments/theories, please also try to critically scrutinize them (and/or their premises). Furthermore, you are allowed to express your personal opinions, but it is not really your opinions which are interesting here. The interesting part is the reasons for your opinions or, even better,reason for your evaluation of a theory. Please therefore try to explain what those reason are. Try to minimize the introduction and go as directly as you can on the discussion of the question course literature Literature Farrelly, Colin (2004), Contemporary Political Theory: A Reader (London: Sage) McKinnon, Catriona (2015), Issues in Political Theory, Third Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Texts on Mondo: Cohen, Gerald (1995), extract from Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Crenshaw, Kimberle (1989), 'Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics', The University of Chicago Legal Forum, 139. Dahl, Robert (1957), extract from 'The Concept of Power', Behavioural Science, 2:3. Foucault, Michel (1975), extract from Discipline and Punish (New York: Random House). Hobbes, Thomas (1996), extract from Leviathan (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Kymlicka, Will (1995), extract from Multicultural Citizenship (Oxford: Clarendon Press). Locke, John (1993), extract from Two Treatise of Government (London: Everyman). Lukes, Steven (1974), extract from Power: A Radical View (London: MacMillan). Marx, Karl (1972), extract from Critique of the Gotha Programme (Beijing). Mill, John Stuart (2007), extract from On Liberty (New York: Pearson Longman). Moller-Okin, Susanne (1999), 'Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?', Boston Review. Mouffe, Chantal (1999), extract from 'Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism', Prospects for Democracy, Vol. 66, No. 3. Pateman, Carole (1988), extract from The Sexual Contract (Stanford: Stanford University Press). Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (2002), extract from The Social Contract (New Haven: Yale University Press). Schumpeter, Joseph (1992), extract from Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (London: Routledge). Recommended podcast on two of the themes of the course: Power: • The Partially Examined Life, Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2012/01/11/episode-49-foucault-on-power-andpunishment/ Remember to discuss and try to answer the question on the basis of the course literature. In order to pass, the essay need to be based on the course literature. It is, moreover, desirable that you also refer to the literature by way of a correct system of