Patriarcha: The Complete Political Works - Imperium Press - Couverture souple

Filmer, Robert

 
9781922602169: Patriarcha: The Complete Political Works - Imperium Press
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1922602167 ISBN 13 : 9781922602169
Editeur : Imperium Press, 2021

Synopsis

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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Éditeur
Imperium Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1922602167
ISBN 13 
9781922602169
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
318
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