Robert Filmer
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Filmer · Sir Robert Filmer
in the texts
Ancient Law
Political theorist whose patriarchal doctrine was debated with Locke.
The chief lineaments of such a society, as collected from the early chapters in Genesis, I need not attempt to depict with any minuteness, both because they are familiar to most of us from our earliest childhood, and because, from the interest once attaching to the controversy which takes its name from the debate between Locke and Filmer, they fill a whole chapter, though not a very profitable one …
Just when the argument for monarchical authority rounded itself into the definite doctrine of Filmer, the phraseology, borrowed from the Law of Contract, which had been used in defence of the rights of subjects, crystallised into the theory of an actual original compact between king and people, a theory which, first in English and afterwards, and more particularly, in French hands, expanded into a …
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
English writer who asserted the supremacy of the regal balance and taught the Stuarts this principle, which cost them the throne.
The former, with his co-adjutors, asserted the supremacy of the regal balance, and taught the Stuarts this principle, which lost the throne, and rendered their names detestable to posterity.
Lest however some future Filmer may undertake to prove, that one of these departments may constitutionally assume a supremacy over the other, by the instrumentality of means to effect good ends;