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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
.
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