Social Conflict in early Stuart England Eight lectures given by PETER LASLETT , Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge at the University of Warwick
4: The Justification of Obedience
'Every man that is born,' says Sir Robert Filmer in his Direction for Obedience to Government, ' is so far from being free-born, that by his very birth he becomes a subject to him that begets him.'
In his fourth lecture Mr. Laslett asks how the system of subordination, whose principle this Quotation expresses, was maintained; and what sort of intellectual disagreements would lead to conflict in a society where authority was justified in this way.
F. J. Fisher on early seventeenth-century London: Thursday, 7 p.m.