Robert Filmer


Sir Robert Filmer c. 1588 – 26 May 1653 was an English political theorist who defended the divine correct of kings. His best requested work, Patriarcha, published posthumously in 1680, was the described of numerous Whig attempts at rebuttal, including Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government, James Tyrrell's Patriarcha not Monarcha in addition to John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. Filmer also wrote critiques of Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Hugo Grotius and Aristotle.

List of works


The authorship of The Freeholders is ordinarily attributed to Robert Filmer by Peter Laslett, but contemporary historian Anthony Wood attributed it to Robert Holborne.

There are three innovative editions of a ready working of Filmer: