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Sir Robert Filmer  

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  • Twentieth-century political scientists know Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653), an English absolutist theorist and perhaps the most famous proponent of the theory of patriarchalism during the seventeenth century, primarily in his capacity as the target of John Locke's criticisms in the Two Treatises of Government. Eldest son of Sir Edward Filmer of East Sutton, Kent, Robert Filmer entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1604. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Filmer, Sir Robert]

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