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Filmer

Filmer

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A last name that some people have
  • proper noun
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  • Thomas Hobbes represents one conception, and Robert Filmer the other.
  • Robert Filmer
  • Sir Robert Filmer
  • Filmer and Hobbes

Examples

  • Kings in seventeenth-century England, Filmer argued, could trace their lineage to Adam, to whom God had first bestowed the right of complete authority.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Locke suggested that Filmer believed fathers have "power over the lives of their children because they give them life and being."

    Academic text (2009)

  • The Declaration also challenges Filmer's account of political authority.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Robert Filmer: The Authority of the Father and the Manly Monarch

    Academic text (2009)

  • Locke, unlike Filmer, approved of limits on parental authority.

    Academic text (2009)

  • After criticizing Filmer, Locke offered his own account of the origins of society.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Part II shows that Filmer, another prominent seventeenth-century English philosopher, also believed that men were generally incompetent for self-government.

    Academic text (2009)

  • The colonists first had to parry Hobbes's and Filmer's arguments for the king's authority.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Unlike Hobbes, Filmer argued that men were psychologically infantile and thus lacked the manly independence for self-government.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Steve Filmer is known for his work in consumer advocacy.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

The word Filmer is a family name that probably comes from the common word film ('thin layer' or the material for photos) plus the ending -er ('one who does'). A helpful way to remember it is to think of a 'filmer' as 'one who makes or uses film', and that job name later became a family name passed down to children.