Filmer：'Patriarcha' and Other Writings
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- 出版社 Cambridge University Press
- 出版时间 1991年2月
- ISBN 9780521399036
内容简介
Inseventeenth-centuryEngland,patriarchalistthinkingshapedEnglishideasnotonlyaboutthefamilybutalsoaboutsocietyandthestate.Manythinkersarguedthatthestateshouldbeseenasafamily,andthatthekingheldthepowersofafatheroverhissubjects.TheclassictextsofpatriarchalpoliticalthinkingwerewrittenbySirRobertFilmer(1588-1653),oneofthemostacutedefendersofabsolutemonarchy.Inadditiontopresentinghisownpatriarchalisttheory,Filmer'sworkscontainincisiveattacksondemocraticthinkingandonthenotionthatpoliticalobligationstemsfromacontractbetweenrulerandruled.Hispoliticalworksarehereeditedfromtheoriginalmanuscriptandprintedsources,withanintroductionwhichlocatesFilmer'sideasintheirhistoricalandideologicalcontexts.Thesetexts-towhichJohnLockerepliedinhisinfluentialTwoTreatisesofGovernment-providehighlyimportantdocumentsfortheunderstandingofpoliticalandsocialideasatadecisivestageinthedevelopmentofEnglishattitudes.
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