Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Biographical -- Filmer's Argument -- Patriarchalism in Seventeenth-century Thinking: Filmer and his Contemporaries -- The Republication of Filmer's Works Filmer, Locke and Liberalism -- Bibliographical Note -- Concise Bibliography of The Works Of Sir Robert Filmer -- Patriarcha -- The Freeholder's Grand Inquest Touching Our Sovereign Lord The King, and His Parliament -- Observations Upon Aristotles Politiques TOUCHING Forms of Government -- Directions For Obedience to Government In Dangerous Or Doubtful Times -- Observations Concerning The Origin All Of Government, -- Observations On Mr. Hobbes's Leviathan -- Observations On Mr. Milton Against Salmasius -- Observations Upon H. Grotius De Jure Belli Et Pacis -- The Anarchy Of A Limited Or Mixed Monarchy -- The Necessity Of The Absolute Power of all Kings
In: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
In: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
In: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
In: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
In: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
In seventeenth-century England, patriarchalist thinking shaped English ideas not only about the family but also about society and the state. Many thinkers argued that the state should be seen as a family, and that the king held the powers of a father over his subjects. The classic texts of patriarchal political thinking were written by Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653), one of the most acute defenders of absolute monarchy. In addition to presenting his own patriarchalist theory, Filmer's works contain incisive attacks on democratic thinking and on the notion that political obligation stems from a contract between ruler and ruled. His political works are here edited from the original manuscript and printed sources, with an introduction which locates Filmer's ideas in their historical and ideological contexts. These texts - to which John Locke replied in his influential Two Treatises of Government - provide highly important documents for the understanding of political and social ideas at a decisive stage in the development of English attitudes
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