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Patriarcha: The Complete Political Works - Imperium Press

by Robert Filmer

A defense of patriarchal monarchy

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A defense of patriarchal monarchy

This volume gathers Robert Filmer’s political writings around his defense of royal authority, grounded in arguments from reason, history, and scripture. Its central framework is patriarchalism: political legitimacy is traced through inherited authority to a divine source. That position places the collection squarely in debates over sovereignty, democracy, and constitutionalism, and the supplied introduction frames John Locke’s response as an important part of Filmer’s reception. The book therefore offers a historically situated case for divine-right kingship alongside a broader argument about where legitimate political power can originate.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers studying early modern political thought and arguments for divine-right monarchy.
  • Readers interested in debates about sovereignty, democracy, constitutionalism, and John Locke’s criticism of Filmer.

Themes

Divine right of kingsPatriarchalism and political legitimacySovereigntyDemocracy and constitutionalism

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Book overview

Robert Filmer is the greatest proponent of the divine right of kings the English-speaking world has ever produced. Writing in defence of the Stuart kings against an increasingly strident parliament, he shows by arguments from reason, history, and scripture that the sovereign is necessarily a king, whether in name or not.

But Filmer's importance is much broader than the question of sovereignty. His patriarchalism shows that legitimacy can only derive from earlier legitimacy and ultimately from the divine, offering a powerful counter-revolutionary philosophical framework with fatal implications for democracy and

constitutionalism. Small wonder that liberals felt it necessary to respond to him, and in the introduction to this volume, it is shown that his most famous critic-John Locke-never successfully refuted him.

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