ipl-logo

Sir Robert Filmer's Two Treatises Of Government

240 Words1 Pages
“Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government.” was written by John Locke sometime between 1680 and 1689. The work is divided into the First Treatise and the Second Treatise. The First Treatise is focused on the refutation of a previously published argument made by Sir Robert Filmer in support of the theory that the power to govern is divinely ordained by the Christian god upon a specific individual in the person of the monarch. Fiilmer’s work was thus titled, “Patriarcha.” In “Two Treatises of Government” Locke examines each of Filmer's argument points
Open Document