"Filmer, for all his brash naivety and his obviously amateur outlook, was that extremely rare phenomenon – the codifier of conscious and unconscious prejudice."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Peter Laslett, 'Introduction', in Peter Laslett (ed.), Patriarcha and Other Political Works of Sir Robert Filmer (1949), p. 41
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Filmer
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Robert Filmer
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.
12 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Robert Filmer →
Related Quotes
"Within the last hundred years many of the Schoolmen and other Divines have published and maintained an opinion that: …"
"I come now to examine that argument which is used by Bellarmine, and is the one and only argument I can find produced…"
"I see not then how the children of Adam, or of any man else, can be free from subjection to their parents. And this s…"
"The three sons of Noah had the whole world divided amongst them by their Father; for of them was the whole world over…"
"To majesty or sovereignty belongeth an absolute power not subject to any law."
"[T]he prince is not subject to his law, nor to the laws of his predecessors, but well to his own just and reasonable …"
"In a well-ordered state, the sovereign power must remain in one only, without communicating any part thereof unto the…"
"Filmer was a thinker of uncommon power, and even of uncommon originality. It is true that almost everything he said h…"
"Filmer's origin of government is exemplified everywhere: Locke's scheme of government has not ever, to the knowledge …"
"Under Queen Anne, as under Charles II, there is no doubt that the most influential political theorist was still Sir R…"