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 Robert Filmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Adam this authority was inherited by Noah; and Filmer quotes as not unlikely the tradition that Noah sailed up the Mediterranean and allotted the three continents of the Old World to the rule of his three sons.
From Shem, Ham and Japheth the patriarchs inherited the absolute power which they exercised over their families and servants; and from the patriarchs all kings and governors (whether a single monarch or a governing assembly) derive their authority, which is therefore absolute, and founded upon divine right.
He and his father died in the same city, and he is buried in the church there, surrounded by his descendants to the tenth generation, who were made baronets in his honour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Filmer   (445 words)

  
 Filmer
The belief that Scripture provides a true history of the world was also key to Filmer's enterprise, for the Book of Genesis portrayed the earliest human societies not as democracies, but as patriarchies.
He believed that the institutions of the family and the state were established to fulfill the purposes of human nature.
More recent scholars also have treated Filmer as a worthy object of study - for example Gordon Schochet, James Daly, Carole Pateman and Linda Nicholson.
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/367/367-043.htm   (1503 words)

  
 Hougham/huffam family tree Nov 2005 - pafn585 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Robert then mentions all his nephews then known to be alive but no children of Henry.
In later deeds of 1436 and 1467 the place 'Filmer' is said to contain in all some 40 acres, but no reference to its existence earlier than the fourteenth century has been found and it does not occur in Domesday Book.
William Manne in his will, 22nd February, 1607/8, mentions his daughter Agnes, the wife of Henry Filmer and leaves then both 'for life and their heirs a little spot of ground four roods square where he has lately erected a house' (Arc Reg.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/houghamfamily/pafn585.htm   (1905 words)

  
 Thomas Hobbes, Robert Filmer and John Locke: 17th Century Models for a Science of Society
This, as we shall see, Filmer based on an analysis of the Bible, which in those days was the main history book available to people.
In the seventeenth century the theological aspects of Filmer's argument were very powerful, but we should not let it blind us to the scientific side of his theories.
This is the part of Filmer's argument that remains strong today.
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/ssh2.htm   (6232 words)

  
 Hougham/huffam family tree Nov 2005 - pafn583 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
He is shown as FRANCIS, a boy, in J L Filmer's 'Seven Centuries of a Kent Family' and on the Monumental Inscription to Robert Filmer in East Sutton Church.
It is from the beginning of the fifteenth century that the records are sufficient to determine with a fair degree of certainty not only who are all the surviving members of the Filmer family but their relative social status and property holdings.
It is possible that in the subsequent division between Raynold and William, Raynold took the Payden Street (Wychling) portion and William the lands and tenements in Otterden.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/houghamfamily/pafn583.htm   (6090 words)

  
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Locke's response to Filmer was cast in the form of scriptual exegesis.
Examining the Bible, Locke attempted to document the many cases wherein Filmer had obviously misinterpreted the meaning of selected passages.
Accordingly, he first interpreted the Old Testament in such a way as to justify patriarchal kingships and then subsequently applied such arguments to the monarchies of his own day.
http://orion.it.luc.edu/~rmayer/plsc100/locke.html   (4101 words)

  
 Windsor History. The Windsor Martyrs
These relatively humble men were pursued relentlessly and it does seem probable that they were attacked in the hope of implicating highly placed and influential people suspected of sympathising with church reformers.
Finally the Bishop was persuaded to allow Mistress Marbeck to visit her husband but he continued to press her to incriminate others and to urge her husband to do so.
Foxe's book, which included a woodcut illustrating in graphic detail the Windsor martyrdom, soon became one of the most widely read books in England.
http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/winmartyr.html   (2300 words)

  
 Debates - The Divine Right of Kings vs. Individual Rights
Filmer was a strong advocate of the theory of the divine right of kings in the 17th century.
In this debate, Filmer presented a defense of the doctrine of the "divine right of kings" in 1680.
Sidney rejected Filmer’s theories of royal absolutism and divine right of kings, insisting that title to rule should be based on merit rather than birth; and republics, he thought, were more likely to honor merit than were monarchies.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Debates.php?Collection=10   (545 words)

  
 Extracts from Sir Robert Filmer
This is the passage from 1 Samuel chapter 11 in the King James version of the Jewish Bible that Filmer refers to.
Samuel was a prophet of God and a judge in Israel:
God: When Filmer refers to God, I infer he is making a
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/xfil.htm   (3352 words)

  
 §13. Filmer. XII. Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of ...
Filmer was by no means devoid of critical insight.
Late writers [he says] have taken up too much upon trust from the subtle schoolmen, who to be sure to thrust down the king below the pope, thought it the safest course to advance the people above the king.
He thinks that “a great family, as to the rights of sovereignty, is a little monarchy,” and Hobbes had said the same; but Filmer traces all kingship to the subjection of children to their parents, which is both natural and a divine ordinance.
http://www.bartleby.com/217/1213.html   (429 words)

  
 Catholic Sources and the Declaration of Independence
Robert Filmer, private theologian of James I of England, in his theory of Divine right, proclaimed, “The king can do no wrong.
The most sacred order of kings is of Divine right.” John Neville Figgis, who seems little inclined to give Catholicism undue credit, makes the following assertions.
Having lately seen a book entitled “Patriarcha,” written by Sir Robert Filmer, concerning the universal and undistinguished right of all kings, I thought a time of leisure might well be employed in examining his doctrine and the questions arising from it; which seems so far to concern all mankind.
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/politics/pg0003.html   (3815 words)

  
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Filmer died at East Sutton on May 26, 1653, and is buried in the church there, surrounded by his descendants to the tenth generation made baronets in his honour.
If any desire the direction of the New Testament, he may find our Saviour limiting and distinguishing Royal Power, By giving to Caesar those things that were Caesar’s, and to God those things that were God's.
  Filmer, and the Kentish gentlemen who read him in manuscript, had rejected government by consent well before parliament proceeded to extremes against Charles I. Filmer believed that the state was a family, that the first king was a father and that submission to patriarchal authority was the key to political obligation.
http://www.christianheritageworks.com/111.htm   (2012 words)

  
 FILMER FAMILY DESCENDANTS
Possibly in the church or church yard of the church that was built by Captain William PIERCE at Baker's Neck.
Children: i Sir Edward FILMER died 1669, unmarried, Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to Chas I & II.
ii Son FILMER (mentioned in 1652; in 1657 in invoice for shoes of a 10 year old and a 12 year old, not mentioned with his sister in 1665.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6025/filmer.htm   (1585 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government: Preface, Chapters 1-2: Of the State of Nature
Locke aimed to refute Filmer's theory of the divine right of sovereignty.
Adam was NOT given absolute authority over the world and his children by God
In Chapter 1, Locke first reiterates his arguments from the First Treatise against Sir Robert Filmer's writings.
http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/locke/section2.rhtml   (950 words)

  
 Robert Filmer, Sir Biography / Biography of Robert Filmer, Sir Biography
After the Restoration a genuine wave of promonarchical sentiment existed, and Filmer's once unpopular ideas were gradually resurrected.
Filmer rejected any sort of "social compact"--whether stemming from man's "natural goodness" as Milton would have had it or from his depravity as Hobbes averred--as the original basis for government.
Filmer was, however, a rationalist; before his death in 1653 he wrote two works which cast doubt on the validity of witchcraft, An Advertisement to the Jurymen of England Touching Witches and The Difference between a Hebrew and an English Witch.
http://www.bookrags.com/biography-robert-filmer-sir   (614 words)

  
 John Locke Bibliography -- Chapter 7, Politics & Government -- 1660-1800
In which the falseness of those opinions that would make monarchy jure divino are laid open: and the true principles of government and property (especially in our kingdom) asserted.
Faithfully published out of the original copy, written with his own hand, by the reverend father in God, Robert Lord Bishop of Lincoln, with his Lordships preface thereunto … London: printed for Anne Seile, 1661.
Corrected according to the original manuscript of the author … To which is added, a preface to the reader in which this piece is vindicated from the cavils and misconstructions of the author of a book stiled Patriarcha non monarcha.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/locke/ch7-18c.html   (6684 words)

  
 THE CHRONICLES BOOKLOG: Find out what the Chronicles editors are reading, and purchase recommended books
This was, I believe, a laudable goal, just as the goal of the pro-life movement is eminently laudable, but since the arguments are not rooted either in reality or in the Christian tradition, they were soon to be taken up by the enemies not only of the Catholic Church but of Christianity as a whole.
One way to address that question is a discussion of Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarca, a book actually written before Locke’s Treatises, which effectively debunks the mythology.
Aristotle and Cicero are ultimately far more important than Filmer, but his little polemic is a good place to begin the discussion.
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/booklog.cgi/2004/05   (3171 words)

  
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Filmer endorsed complete male subordination of women, arguing that the Bible ordained women's inferior status.
Sir Robert Filmer incorporated portions of Aristotle's arguments into his theory rejecting popular sovereignty in favor of absolute monarchy.
Geisst contends that Filmer presents a coherent theory which merits Filmer's inclusion in the cannon of Western political theory.
http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/socsci/journals/STUD-5.HTML   (62 words)

  
 ramirez
Locke "shattered"[1] Filmer's argument for the right to rule by direct descent by noting there is no evidence in the Bible to support Filmer's theory.
The First Treatise of Government is written primarily as a response to Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha (1680) that argued through the Bible that monarchical political authority is sanctioned by God and derived from the direct descent from Adam, and therefore beyond human intervention or control.
With Filmer's view of political authority addressed, Locke turned to his Second Treatise of Government: An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government to present his own views on the origins and extent of political authority.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/zagarri/hist499/students/ramirez.html   (4396 words)

  
 John Drury Rare Books Stock Selection - 9749
During the Middle Ages and right through into at least the latter half of the 17th century the received view forcefully promulgated by the church was that usury was an unmitigated sin.
Sir Robert Filmer was one of a growing number of English gentry who were increasingly troubled by such a view.
Filmer's 'Discourse' was first published in 1653 as 'Quaestio quodlibetica; or, a discourse, whether it may bee lawfull to take use for money'.
http://www.btinternet.com/~johndrury/stock/9749.htm   (283 words)

  
 Robert Adam --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Robert Mondavi's vision brought him to be perhaps California's best known winemaker.
Among the architects, designers, and decorators who worked on the house were Sir John Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, Grinling Gibbons, and William Kent.
Learn about the Presidency of John Adams, who was the second man to hold the office of U.S. President and the first to occupy the newly constructed White House.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9003646   (841 words)

  
 Locke and the Second Treatise
The argument of the First Treatise against Filmer is summed up at the beginning of the Second:
Filmer's Patriarcha had made the argument that the authority of the King was inherited ultimately from Adam, the first man created by God, and therefore ultimately from God.
That if his heirs had, there being no law of Nature nor positive law of God that determines which is the right heir in all cases that may arise, the right of succession, and consequently of bearing rule, could not have been certainly determined.
http://www.northern.edu/blanchak/modern4a.html   (590 words)

  
 People and ideas systems
According to Filmer, this divine right to rule has passed down to all future kings.
Filmer was an enthusiastic royalist, who wrote pamphlets in defence of the authority of the state, arguing that kings have a divine right to rule.
(Hobbes, Filmer and Locke, 17th Century Models for a Science of Society) the thtories of Robert Filmer are an example of a theological explanation of society.
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/bio.htm   (8819 words)

  
 John Locke: Second Treatise of Government
Summary of first treatise: Robert Filmer’s version of the Divine Right of Kings is completely destroyed.
This point is significant, because writers like Filmer try to trace the power of Kings to paternal power, but they wouldn’t want to say that the wives of Kings have equal authority.
Summary of previous points distinguishing these three different kinds of powers (which Locke first distinguished in §2) which the Divine Right of Kings theorists (Filmer, in particular) tend to conflate
http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~simoncu/368/locke.htm   (5693 words)

  
 Family
To said son, JOHN, also my houses and lands in YALDING and to his
Manor of Herst in Parish Otterdan, England.6,7 The Filmers were anciently
EDWARD FILMER, my second son and heirs; for default to REYNALD, my fourth
http://xpda.com/family/fam00918.htm   (722 words)

  
 Filmer monumental brass - Sir Edward Filmer and Lady Elizabeth Argall
The inscription round the verge of the plate shows that the monument was prepared in the life-time of the widow, the date of her death having been scratched upon the metal, subsequently to its being placed in the church:
They lived together forty-four years and had issue eighteen children, Viz: nine sons and nine daughters.
The Filmer family was originally seated at Herst, in the parish of Otterden, Kent, where Robert Filmer lived in the reign of Edward II.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6025/filmer_argall.htm   (422 words)

  
 John Locke Bibliography--Part I -- Two treatises of government
sees the Filmer passages in the second treatise as additions made around 1680 to a text written in the 1670s.
Laslett argued that the second treatise had been written in 1679-80 and that the first treatise had been added later after the appearance of Patriarcha.
The first treatise, a detailed refutation of Filmer’s Patriarcha, first published in 1680, had probably been written at that time.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/locke/ch0c.html   (3271 words)

  
 Reading and Discussion Questions: Locke
Arguing against Filmer’s view that “Adam’s title to Sovereignty” rests on “the Subjection of Eve,” Locke says readers only have to read Filmer carefully to see that his claim cannot be supported.
In Chapter I (§1), Locke summarizes his argument against Filmer.
Locke did not put his name to it (many things were published anonymously, but Locke made a special point of not acknowledging the Two Treatises until he wrote his will).
http://eee.uci.edu/programs/humcore/SQ/F04_SQ_Wk3.htm   (1507 words)

  
 Property (ownership right) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmer said that the institution of kingship is analogous to that of fatherhood, that subjects are but children, whether obedient or unruly, and that property rights are akin to the household goods that a father may dole out among his kids—his to take back and dispose of according to his pleasure.
In the following generation, John Locke sought to answer Filmer, creating a rationale for a balanced constitution in which the monarch would have a part to play, but not an overwhelming part.
Therein, Locke imagined a pre-social world, the unhappy residents of which create a social contract.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property   (3046 words)

  
 Filmer: 'Patriarcha' and Other Writings - Cambridge University Press
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 the seventeenth century.
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.
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?ISBN=0521399033   (360 words)

  
 Filmer1638
If she dies before then said £300 to ELIZABETH and ANNE FILMER daughters of my son REGINALD Filmer.
Whereas said Dame ELIZABETH had bequeathed to ELIZABETH daughter of ROBERT BARHAM, gentleman, a competent porcion, her will is that £50 of the said legacy in case said ELIZABETH BARHAM depart this life before attaining 18 years shall be equally divided between the two daughters of said REGINALD.
After Sir EDWARD FILMER's death his wife, Dame ELIZABETH, continued to live at East Sutton Place until her death in 1638.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/film1638.html   (489 words)

  
 The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 18th Century: Topic 2: Texts and Contexts
Against Filmer's belief in the absolute, God-given power of the monarch, Locke maintains the natural liberty of human beings; all people are born free, and the attempt to enslave any person creates a state of war (as opposed to the state of nature).
John Locke (1632–1704), the philosopher whose theory of natural rights helped to define the principles of modern democracy, wrote his First Treatise of Government (1690) to refute Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings (written ca.
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/topic_2/locke.htm   (625 words)

  
 Chapter Fielding <i>to</i> Flecknoe of F by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
He is notable as the defender, in its most extreme form, of the doctrine of the divine right of kings, which he expounded in a succession of works, of which the latest and best known, Patriarcha, appeared in 1679.
Filmer, Sir Robert (died 1653?).—Political writer, son of Sir Edward Filmer, of East Sutton, Kent, was educated at Cambridge He was an enthusiastic Royalist, was knighted by Charles I, and, in 1671, was imprisoned in Leeds Castle, Kent.
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/259/1249/22625/1.html   (646 words)

  
 Family of Edward Filmer
Katherine was the third daughter in her family, and Robert's third wife.
An ardent Royalist in the Civil Wars, and a friend of King Charles I, Robert was the author of "De Patriarcha",  a famous treatise on Devine Rights of Kings.
Another report indicates Edward may have died in August, 1638 and was buried at St. Peter and
http://members.cox.net/trm/FilmerEdward.htm   (121 words)

  
 TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
I should not speak so plainly of a gentleman, long since past answering, had not the pulpit, of late years, publicly owned his doctrine, and made it the current divinity of the times.
Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government; what fate has otherwise disposed of the papers that should have filled up the middle, and were more than all the rest, it is not worth while to tell thee.
If he think it not worth while to examine his works all thro', let him make an experiment in that part, where he treats of usurpation; and let him try, whether he can, with all his skill, make Sir Robert intelligible, and consistent with himself, or common sense.
http://www.rvc.cc.il.us/faclink/pruckman/phil/treatise2.htm   (8271 words)

  
 Filmer ToC: The Online Library of Liberty
Filmer's book sparked a debate with John Locke, who replied to Filmer's defence of divine right with a robust defence of natural rights in the Two Treatises of Government.
View chapters/sections - See ToC below for details
By the Learned Sir Robert Filmer Baronet (London: Richard Chiswell, 1680).
http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0140.php   (489 words)

  
 Filmer, Sir Robert - definition of Filmer, Sir Robert by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
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 Alibris: Robert Filmer
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 Combs-Fleet Connections
FILMER lent me and my son Henry FLEETE towards the recovering of my sd.
Rest of goods to my sister Deborah FLEETE (and she to be) Ex'trix.
Robert STEYNOR, and now in occupation of John SMYTHE, also one parcell of grounde lying neere Perry wood, co. Worcester, called Ryngswood als the Harp.
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 Combs &c. Families of Brabourne, Kent, England
Susan SARE was the d/o Thomas and Joan ADY Sare and sister of Ady SARE of the Inner Temple and Provender, Norton, Kent, who m Sarah ARCHDALE, d/o Thomas and Mary CLIFTON Archdale of London.
The Barham Family report adds that Robert BARHAM the younger (s/o Robert and Susan SARE Barham) married 1 Aug 1620, Katherine FILMER, d/o Sir Edward and Elizabeth FILMER of East Sutton, Kent.
The 1632 London will of Dorothie SCOTT, spinster sister of Deborah SCOTT Fleet, names her friend Sir Robert FILMER overseer.
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 Filmer Robert - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Search Results for filmer - Encyclopædia Britannica
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The free-holders grand inquest, touching Our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament [microform] : to which are added observations upon forms of government : together with directions for obedience to governours in dangerous and doubtful times / by the learned Sir Robert Filmer, Knight
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 Filmer: 'Patriarcha' and Other Writings
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 Philosophical Dictionary: Fibonacci-Foucher
Filmer's posthumously-published defense of a divinely-ordained hereditary monarchy in
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