Concept

Robert Filmer

Overview

Sir Robert Filmer (c. 1588 – 26 May 1653) was an English political theorist who defended the divine right of kings. His best known work, Patriarcha, published posthumously in 1680, was the target of numerous Whig attempts at rebuttal, including Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government, James Tyrrell's Patriarcha Non Monarcha and John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. Filmer also wrote critiques of Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Hugo Grotius and Aristotle.

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Philosophers who discussed Robert Filmer

• Francisco Suárez
• John Locke
• Jean Bodin
• Thomas Hobbes

Related ideas

• Glorious Revolution
• John Calvin
• John Locke
• John Milton
• Leviathan (Hobbes book)
• Noah
• Algernon Sidney
• Thomas Hobbes
• Aristotle
• Trinity College, Cambridge
• Natural rights and legal rights
• Adam
• Whigs (British political party)
• Jeremy Bentham
• Reformed Christianity
• Hugo Grotius
• Divine right of kings
• Family as a model for the state

Place in the tradition

Part of Liberalism.

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