"In some forty pages of introduction he has given us the most intelligent account of Filmer and his ideas that has yet appeared. There is a brief account of the results of his considerable researches into the life of Filmer, which is followed by an admirably concise statement of the argument of Patriarcha and its place in the political controversies of the seventeenth century. But the most notable part of the introduction is that in which Mr. Laslett deals with the place and significance of Patriarchalism generally in seventeenth-century thinking."
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Michael Oakeshott, review of Robert Filmer, Patriarcha and Other Political Writings, ed. Peter Laslett in Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 94 (July 1950), p. 281
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Peter Laslett
Peter Laslett (18 December 1915 – 8 November 2001) was an English historian.
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