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 beinK free-born, that by his very birth he becomes a subject to him that begets him.' 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.
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Austin Woolrych on Puritanism and Politics in the early seventeenth century: Friday at 7.0 p.m.