POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Robert Filmer, Absolute Monarchy, Exclusion Crisis
19 Mar 2014
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The second treatise is a response to: exclusion crisis (1678-81, sir robert filmer. Locke, whom held a position of political advisory to a whig, and his party are winners of this issue: the first treatise, an answer to robert filmer, a defender of absolute monarchism (see ch. The following are beliefs of filmer that locke think are rubbish: i. Filmer believed political power=paternal power; should be absolute, unquestioned, and eternal: we are not born equal iii. The authority of the kings on earth is derived from adam (eden: his 1st treatise argued that the power of the sovereign cannot be absolute; it"s completely illegitimate . Paternal power is not absolute (according to the bible) because the mother has an equal amount of authority (possibly an endorsement of william and mary sharing power?) Paternal power ought to be seen as temporary (until 21, when we are then equal with our fathers and can fully reason with them).
