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Robert Filmer

1588 - 1653

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Sir Robert Filmer (c. 1588 – 26 May 1653) was an English political theorist who defended the divine right of kings. His best known work, Patriarcha, published posthumously in 1680, was the target of numerous Whig attempts at rebuttal, including Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government, James Tyrrell's Patriarcha Non Monarcha and John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Filmer has received more than 286,620 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Robert Filmer is the 659th most popular philosopher (down from 637th in 2019), the 1,489th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,442nd in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Robert Filmer ranks 659 out of 1,081. Before him are Theodor Lipps, Aristo of Chios, Thomas Hill Green, Louis Couturat, Helmuth Plessner, and Cheng Yi. After him are Gustavo Gutiérrez, Bharadwaja, Olympiodorus the Younger, Svetozar Marković, Diodorus Cronus, and Alfred Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, Robert Filmer ranks 9. Before him are Constance of Austria, Henri, Prince of Condé, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Marina Mniszech, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, and Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg. After him are Johann Heinrich Alsted, Isaac Beeckman, Pierre Séguier, Margherita Aldobrandini, Ole Worm, and Johann von Aldringen. Among people deceased in 1653, Robert Filmer ranks 6. Before him are Artemisia Gentileschi, Maarten Tromp, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Gabriel Naudé, and Luigi Rossi. After him are Théophraste Renaudot, Adriaen van Utrecht, Simon de Vlieger, Jan Wildens, Lucrezia Marinella, and Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Filmer ranks 1,489 out of 7,765. Before him are Michael Apted (1941), Reginald Lee (1870), Adrian Lyne (1941), Jared Harris (1961), Emma Darwin (1808), and Charles Macintosh (1766). After him are John Nash (1752), John Hunter (1728), Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770), Oswald of Northumbria (604), William Jones (1675), and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Robert Filmer ranks 41. Before him are John Austin (1790), David Hartley (1705), R. G. Collingwood (1889), Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623), Gilbert Ryle (1900), and Thomas Hill Green (1836). After him are William Paley (1743), P. F. Strawson (1919), Olaf Stapledon (1886), Henry More (1614), Bernard Williams (1929), and Stephen Toulmin (1922).

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