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Comment on the assertion of Laslett that Filmer and not Hobbes was the main antagonist of Locke.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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For two centuries John Locke's Two Treatises of Government was read as the liberal answer to Thomas Hobbes, limited government against absolutism, both built on contract. Peter Laslett, who edited Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha (1949) and then produced the critical edition of the Two Treatises (1960), argued that Locke's real adversary was Filmer. He is…

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  • Laslett's Case
  • Why Hobbes Remains the Deeper Antagonist
  • Indian Illustration
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