POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Robert Filmer, Two Treatises Of Government, God Game
2 Apr 2016
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Adam"s private dominion and paternal jurisdicion are not the basis of poliical power. And so with his rebutals of filmer"s proposiions in the irst treaty, he reairms that adam"s private dominion and paternal jurisdicion are not basis of poliical power. Locke"s deiniion of poliical power: power to make laws and to deine punishments for greater and lesser crimes, regulate and secure property, carry out laws, defend commonwealth from strangers, and exercise aforemenioned powers only for the public good. Necessary points from first treaty to understand the second: robert filmer: english poliical theorist whose works was published around 1680s. Locke"s preface to first treaise shows his negaive opinion of filmer"s work. First problem: fatherhood component of theory which said that adam"s heirs received their authority from him as their father, it was god, not adam who was really creaing life and that made this aspect of filmer"s work invalid.
