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That formulation was crucial; it signified at least the intellectual end of the era epitomized by King Louis XIV of France: "L'etat, c'est moi." Locke carried Tyrrell's idea much farther in his Two Treatises of Government, written partly as a refutation of Filmer and published just after the revolution in 1688. In the Second Treatise, Locke based all political theory upon a rationally ordered universe. The thought was not impiously secular but in fact was the re-verse?a conception of human order deriving entirely from the infinite and infinitely discoverable mind of God. Yet, in effect...
...feudalism had bound lord to vassal as well as vassal to lord, apologists for the ever mightier monarchs of Europe increasingly used "right reason" to interpret God's will as a mandate for the divine right of kings?a sacred and descending chain of authority. In 1680, Sk Robert Filmer's Patriarcha or the Natural Power of Kings expressed this idea according to a metaphor of relative power: "Kings are as absolute as Adam over the creatures." A king, thought Filmer, rules his people as a father rules ins children. In 1681, the writer James Tyrrell, a friend of Locke...
Yale still offers courses oriented to the "policy approach." Professor Harold Lasswell, for instance, a social scientist on the Law faculty, with Professor Myers McDougal, gives a course in "World Community and Law," which presents international law "in the perspective of the world-power process." Philosopher-lawyer Filmer Northrop teaches "Philosophy of Natural Science and Natural Law." Professor Fowler Harper, too, in his course on "Family Law," considers not only such things as divorce law, but also the psychological and personality conflicts that lead to divorce. As he says, "We want to go behind the law to find what makes...
...career men are generally quiet men, and inclined to be scholarly. One (W. Walton Butterworth, in Sweden) is a Rhodes Scholar; another (J. Rives Childs, in Ethiopia) writes novels and histories under a pseudonym (Henry Filmer), and carries an enormous private library with him wherever he goes...
Aiken plans to refute the arguments of Filmer S. C. Northrop as presented in the book "Meeting of East and West." "I've challenged him on several occasions," Aiken declared, "but I've never been able to get an answer." Aiken claims Northrop's theory that the East and West can end their conflict by merging their ideologies is "naive and fantastic...