Aaron
Abel
Abimelech
Abraham
Absalom
Absolute monarchy: Filmer on; divine right of; and Adam’s fatherhood; and laws; compared with parental authority; by inheritance from Adam; and patriarchal power; executive power of; as inconsistent with civil society; and legislative power; and executive prerogative. See alsoKings and princes; Monarchy
Absolute power. SeeAbsolute monarchy; Sovereignty
Ackerman, Bruce
Acosta, Josephus
Act Against Popery of
Adam: heirs of; authority and sovereignty of; fatherhood of; children of; creation of; dominion of, over Eve; title to sovereignty by creation; fall of; compared with Noah; title to sovereignty by donation; dominion of, over world and animals; title to sovereignty by subjection of Eve; curse against; title to sovereignty by fatherhood; as grandfather of the people; death of; property of; conveyance of sovereign monarchical power from Adam to kings and princes; monarchy by inheritance from; heirs to Adam’s monarchical power; designation of heirs of; as perfect man
Adonibeseck
Adultery
Aggressors. SeeConquest and conquerors
Ahaz
Ainsworth, Henry
America
American Indians. SeeIndians, American
American Revolution
Amnon
Anarchy
Anatomy of human body
Angels
Animals: Adam’s dominion over; creation of; humankind’s dominion over; as food for humans; Noah’s dominion over; Eve’s dominion over; care of, for their offspring; procreation of; sacrifice of, for worship
Archetypes
Aristotle
Arminians
Arrest, writ of
Ashcraft, Richard
Ashley, Lord. SeeShaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooperst Earl of
Assemblies
Athaliah
Atheism
Babel, dispersion of
Bailyn, Bernard
Barclay, William
Barry, Brian
Bayle, Pierre
Becker, Carl
Bellarmine, Cardinal
Benhadad
Benjamin
Bible. SeeScripture; and specific books of Bible
Bilson, Thomas
Birthright
Blackwood, Adam
Bodin, Jean
Bodleian Library
Boyle, Robert
Bracton, Henry de
Brama
Brazil
Brothers: Noah’s sons; eldest son as heir; Jacob and Esau; Cain and Abel; dominion of eldest brother; Isaac and Ishmael; Absalom and Amnon
Brounower, Sylvester
Buchanan
Buchanan, James
Cade, Jack
Cain
Caligula
Calvinists
Canaan–
Cannibalism
Capitalism
Carolina Castration
Catholicism
Cato
Cervantes
Ceylon
Cham
Charity. See alsoToleration
Charles I, King
Charles II, King
Children: fathers’ authority and power over; Noah’s sons; obedience of, to parents; sale and murder of; castration of; of Adam; births of, in sorrow and pain; mothers’ role in begetting; authority of grandfathers over grandchildren; inheritance of parents’ property by; care of, by parents; and laws; and freedom; duty of, toward parents; education of; punishment of; and guilt of father; and conquest
Chinese
Christ Church, Oxford
Christian Natural Jurisprudence
Christianity. SeeCatholicism; Religion; Toleration
Chronicles, books of
Church. SeeReligion
Civil assemblies
Civil interests
Civil power: of eldest parents; and divine institution; of magistrates; salvation of souls excluded from. See alsoMagistrates
Civil society: and marriage; master and servants; and punishment of offenses; exemption from laws of; and consent of majority
Civitas
Clarke, Edward
Clarke, Mrs.
Clergy and toleration
Commandment, Fifth
Commoners and common land
Commonwealth: authority of rulers of; waging of war and peace b y; and Israelites; and freedom of humans; and punishment of offenses; history and early rulers of; formation of new commonwealths; definition of; forms of; and extent of legislative power; legislative power of; executive power of; federative power of; subordination of powers of; and conquest; and usurpation; and tyranny; dissolution of government; rebellion against
Community. SeeCommonwealth
Compact
Conquest and conquerors
Conscience
Consent, government b y
Constantinople
Constitutionalism
Contracts: of marriage; and women
Conversion by force
Copulation. SeeProcreation
Corinthians, Epistle to
Creation by God
Crimes
Cromwell, Oliver, x
Cudworth, Damaris. SeeMasham, Damaris Cudworth, Lady
Curse against Adam and Eve
Curti, Merle
Dahl, Robert
Danes
David,
Death penalty
Democracy: and Filmer’s concept of fatherhood; definition of; majority choice of; Greek theory of; Locke’s theory of; Rousseau on; and equality; and majority rule; and toleration and dissent; and liberalism; and resistance; and constitutional systems
Descartes, René
Despots and despotism
Deucalion
Deuteronomy, book of
Dissolution of government
Divine right
Divorce
Don Quixote
Donation and Adam’s title to sovereignty
Dunn, John
Dutch people. SeeHolland and Dutch people
Dworkin, Ronald
Earth: Adam’s dominion over; fathers and dominion over; humans’ use of; food from; temporal life of humans on. See alsoAnimals; Food; Mankind/humankind
Ecclesiastical matters. SeeReligion; Toleration
Ectypes
Edict of Nantes
Edom
Education
Edward VI, King
Egypt
Elder and younger: eldest son as heir; and Jacob and Esau; dominion of eldest brother. See alsoBrothers
Eldest parents
Election
Elizabeth, Queen
Emims
Enclosure
England, x. See also specific monarchs
Enlightenment
Ephesians, Epistle to
Equality
Esau
Essay Concerning Human Understanding(Locke)
Essays on the Law of Nature(Locke)
Estate. SeeProperty
Eunuchs
Eve: Adam’s dominion over; creation of; dominion of, over animals; curse of, due to disobedience; children of; power of, compared with Adam’s power
Exclusion Crisis, x
Excommunication
Executive power: and state of nature; of absolute monarchy; of commonwealth; and legislative power; and obedience; force of; and prerogative; and dissolution of government; actions by, against trust of people. See alsoAbsolute monarchy; Kings and princes
Exodus, book of
Ezekiel, book of
Faith, articles of. See alsoReligion
Family: paternal power in; husbands’ conjugal power in; mother’s role in; children’s duty to parents in; and purpose of marriage; master of; and conquest; liberal theory on; and rights of wives; sovereignty within; analogy between state and. See alsoBrothers; Children; Fathers and paternal authority; Marriage; Mothers and maternal authority
Farr, James
Fasting-days
Fathers and paternal authority: Adam’s fatherhood; authority and power of, over children; obedience to; and patriarchal power; sale and killing of children by; and dominion over earth; God’s fatherhood; authority of, over grandchildren; magistrates’ authority as paternal; and property; and care of children; inheritance of, from son; and dispersion of Babel; kings and power of fatherhood; children’s duty to; as rulers of families; as master of family; conquest by. See alsoFamily; Marriage
Federative power
Fifth Commandment
Filmer, Sir Robert: absolutist views of, x; Locke’s reply to; on slavery; on paternal and regal power; on Adam’s title to sovereignty by creation; on Adam’s title to sovereignty by donation; on Adam’s title to sovereignty by subjection of Eve; on Adam’s title to sovereignty by fatherhood; on fatherhood and property as fountains of sovereignty; on conveyance of Adam’s sovereign monarchical power; on monarchy by inheritance from Adam; on heir to Adam’s monarchical power; on freedom; summary of views of, on paternal authority; and Scripture; on mixed and limited monarchy
First Amendment
Florida
Food
Force: punishment as; as violence; of executive power; opposition to; of conquest; and rebellions; conversion by; religious persecution; of laws; of ecclesiastical authority. See alsoPunishment
Fortescue, Sir John
Foucault, Michel
France
Franklin, J. H.
Freedom: Mill on; Filmer on; as natural state of humans; and laws; and reason; and children; of speech. See alsoLiberty
Galatians, Epistle to Garcilasso de la Vega
Gee, Edward
Gender relations. SeeFamily; Fathers and paternal authority; Marriage; Mothers and maternal authority
Genesis, book of
Gerson, Jean de
Gideon
God: and Adam’s sovereignty by donation; creation of Adam and Eve by; and Adam’s dominion over world and animals; creation of animals by; humankind in image of; blessing of Noah by; blessings of, on humans; curse of, against Adam and Eve; Eve’s disobedience against; as Creator of humans; and human’s desire for propagating their kind; anger of, against Israelites; and self-preservation of humans; and Cain; and workmanship model; as Judge; gift of earth to humans in common; relationship between Israelites and; worship of; changing views of; as Law-Giver; omnipotence of; natural right of; and human reason; voice of, in Scripture
Gold. See alsoMoney
Golden Age
Goldie, Mark
Goods. SeeProperty
Government: first government of Adam; property and fatherhood as fountains of sovereignty; necessity of; submission to as everyone’s duty; for good of governed; and succession; civil power of, and divine institution; beginnings of political society; and consent of governed; formation of new governments; and land; ends of; dissolution of; rebellion against; legitimacy of. See alsoAbsolute monarchy; Commonwealth; Executive power; Kings and princes; Legislative power; Monarchy; Political power
Grandfathers and grandchildren
Grant, Ruth
Greece
Grotius, Hugo
Harvey, William
Hayward, Sir John
Heaven. See alsoSalvation of souls
Hebrews. SeeJews
Heirs. SeeInheritance
Henry VIII, King
Hercules
Hereditary monarchy
Heresy
Hezekiah
Hingar
Hobbes, Thomas
Holland and Dutch people
Homer
Hooker, Richard
Horims
Hubba
Huguenots
Human nature. SeeMankind/humankind; State of nature
Hunton, Philip
Husbands. SeeFamily; Fathers and paternal authority; Marriage
Idolatry
Incest
Indians, American,
Industry. SeeLabor Infanticide,
Inheritance: Adam’s heirs; by eldest son; Noah as heir of world; of Jacob and Esau; of Cain and Abel; Noah’s heirs; of kings and princes from Adam; monarchy by inheritance from Adam; of property by children; of father from son; and primogeniture; and natural law; heirs of Adam’s monarchical power; Abraham’s heirs; Jacob’s heirs; questions on; and conquest; right of; parents’ power over
Iraq
Ireland
Isaac
Isaiah, book of
Ishmael
Islam. SeeMahometans (Muslims)
Israelites. SeeJews
Jacob
James I, King
James II, King
Japhet
Jefferies, Judge
Jephthah
Jeroboam
Jews: captivity of Israelites in Egypt; kings of; God’s anger against; idolatry by; killing of children by; succession of kings of; priests of Israelitesn; and law of Moses; and warfare; and dispersion of Babel; and commonwealth form of government; Moses and Joshua as leaders of; judges of Israelites; sale of selves to masters; God’s relationship with Israelites; worship b y; and idolatry; and articles of faith; toleration for. See alsoPatriarchs; and specific Israelites
John, St.
Jonathan
Joseph
Joshua
Jotham
Judah
Judges: of Israelites; God as judge; appeal to, for settling controversies; and punishment of offenses
Judges, book of
Jupiter
Justice
Justin
Juvenal
Kendall, Willmoore
Kindred. See alsoFamily
Kings, books of
Kings and princes: divine right and absolute power of; of Israelites; authority of, from Adam’s authority power; laws of; obedience to; conveyance of Adam’s sovereign monarchical power to; and monarchy of inheritance from Adam; succession of; as heirs to Adam’s monarchical power; and paternal power; of Greece; of West Indies; Hooker onn; of American Indians; restraints against abuse of power by; and conquest; subjection of, to laws of God and nature; and tyranny; person of, as sacred and protected; and dissolution of government; rebellion against; loss of power and authority of; and religion; excommunication of; and salvation of souls; and equality of humans. See alsoAbsolute monarchy; Executive power; Monarchy Koran
Labor
Land: inheritance of, by eldest son; cultivation of; common land; and government. See alsoProperty
Language
Laslett, Peter
Law: and absolute monarch; and public good; of Moses; of life and death; municipal laws; and freedom; and children; Hooker on; civil law; exemption from laws of civil society; and extent of legislative power; and executive prerogative; force of, through penalties; ecclesiastical laws; purpose of; and individual rights; foreigners’ obedience to laws of country in which they reside; Hobbes on. See alsoLegislative power; Natural law
Lawson, George
Legislative power: and absolute monarchy; subjection to; extent of; and consent of governed; and justice; and preservation of property; definition of; people’s power over; as supreme power; and executive power; people’s reinstatement of; scheduling of meetings of; and representation of the people; and executive prerogative; and dissolution of government; establishment of new legislative after dissolution of government; actions by, against trust of people; ends of. See alsoLaw; Parliament
Legislators
Letter Concerning Toleration(Locke): date of publication of; on Catholic Church; on Protestant nonconformists; text of; summary of issues in
Leviathan(Hobbes)
Levite
Leviticus, book of
Liberalism
Liberty: Mill on; natural limits on; and state of nature; and society; Filmer on; and reason; and religious toleration; ecclesiastical liberty; of conscience. See alsoFreedom; Toleration
Limborch, Philipp van
Locke, John: birth and death dates of; dating of Two Treatises b y; exile of; academic career of, at Oxford; influence and achievement of; and medicine; political views of; Shaftesbury’s relationship with; and philosophy; compared with Mill; reply to Filmer’s Patriarcha by; scholarship on; and Enlightenment; and domains of normative conflict in modern politics; and theorization of rights; and toleration; on place of politics in human life; on women’s status; democratic theory of. See also Letter Concerning Toleration(Locke); Two Treatises(Locke); and other works
Lot
Louis XIV, King
Love. SeeCharity
Lovelace papers
Luke, Gospel of
Lutherans
MacIntyre, Alasdair
Macpherson, C. B.
Magistrates: authority of, as paternal; and public good; and death sentence; punishment by; resistance against; civil power of; and salvation of souls; and toleration; and worship of churches; and idolatry; and articles of faith; and ecclesiastical assemblies and meetings
Mahometans (Muslims)
Majority rule
Mankind/humankind: and slavery; and dominion over animals; children of men used as expression for; in God’s image; God’s blessings on; God’s curse upon; and desire of propagating their kind; and reason; and self-preservation; and equality; and freedom; and political power; and limits on liberty; and immortal soul; and temporal life on earth; dependence of; generic understanding of “man” and “mankind,”
Manwaring, Roger
Marriage: of Adam and Eve; husbands’ conjugal power in; wives’ subjection to husbands in; of queens; contract of; kinship prohibitions for; Scripture on; ends of; and procreation; and rights of wives; and conquest; and polygamy; arranged marriages. See alsoFamily; Fathers and paternal authority; Mothers and maternal authority
Marshall, John
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Mary I, Queen
Mary II, Queen
Masham, Damaris Cudworth, Lady
Massaniello (Aniello)
Master: of servants; of family
Maternal authority. SeeMothers and maternal authority
Matthew, Gospel of
Medicine
Melchizedeckn
Meliboeus
Mellon, Paul
Men. SeeFamily; Fathers and paternal authority; Marriage
Mill, John Stuart
Minority. SeeNonage, minority
Mirror,
Mispeh
Monarchy: and king as above the law; definition of; hereditary monarchy; rules for designation of monarch; and tyranny; majority choice of; Filmer on mixed and limited monarchy. See alsoAbsolute monarchy; Kings and princes; and specific monarchs
Money. See alsoGold
Moses
Mothers and maternal authority: obedience to; and pain of childbirth; and begetting of children; care of children by; children’s duty to. See alsoEve
Municipal law
Murder. See alsoInfanticide
Muslims. SeeMahometans (Muslims)
Nations. See also specific countries
Native Americans. SeeIndians, American
Natural law: and Adam’s sovereignty; and inheritance; and parental power; on liberty; and reason; power of execution of; and punishment; of property; as eternal and unchanging; as unwritten; princes’ subjection to; core intellectual problem of; prescriptive content of; subjection to; will-centered theorists of; natural right versus; and social contract
Natural right versus natural law
Nature. SeeNatural law; State of nature
Nero
Netherlands. SeeHolland and Dutch people
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nimrod
Noah: and ark; sons of; compared with Adam; as monarch of world; and animals for food; dominion over animals by; God’s blessing of; as heir of world; heirs of; death of; property of
Nonage, minority. See alsoChildren
Nozick, Robert
Oakeshott, Michael
Obedience: of children to parents; to queens; Eve’s curse due to disobedience; to kings; identification of ruler to be obeyed; and paternal power; to usurpers; and extent of legislative power; and executive power; limits of duty of; of foreigners to laws of country in which they reside
Obligation: of parents toward children; of children toward parents
Ogyges
Oligarchy
On Liberty(Mill)
Oxford Experimental Philosophy Club
Oxford University
Palantus
Papists. SeeCatholicism
Parents. SeeEldest parents; Fathers and paternal authority; Mothers and maternal authority
Parliament, x
Pateman, Carole
Paternal authority. SeeFathers and paternal authority
Patriarcha. SeeFilmer, Sir Robert
Patriarchalism. SeeFathers and paternal authority
Patriarchs. See also specific Hebrew patriarchs
Peace. SeeWar and peace
People, consent of. SeeConsent, government by
Persecution
Peru
Pharamond
Philistines
Philosophers
Piety
Pocock, John
Poets
Political power: definition of; and equality of humans; and freedom of humans; and state of nature; and war; and slavery; and property; and paternal power; beginnings of political societies; ends of political society and government; forms of commonwealth; extent of legislative power; legislative, executive, and federative power of commonwealth; subordination of powers of commonwealth; and prerogative; parental power compared with; despotical power compared with; and conquest; and usurpation; and tyranny; dissolution of government. See alsoGovernment
Political society: and preservation of property; and punishment of offenses; beginnings of; and consent of majority; ends of
Politics, place of, in human life
Polygamy
Polyphemus
Popple, William
Poverty
Power. See alsoFederative power; Force; Legislative power; Political power; Prerogative power; Sovereignty
Pragmatism
Prerogative power
Preservation of property
Preservation of self. SeeSelf-preservation
Priests and priesthoodn
Primogeniture
Princes. SeeKings and princes
Prisons
Proast, Jonas
Procreation
Procrustes
Property: and sovereignty; of Adam; of Noah; children’s inheritance of parents’ property; and humans’ dominion over animals; and humans’ use of the earth; and labor; and cultivation of land; common land; natural law of; and money; preservation of; taxation of; and conquest; meaning of; women’s ownership of. See alsoLand
Protestantism. SeeReligion; Toleration
Proverbs, book of
Przeworski, Adam
Psalms, book of
Public good
Pufendorf, Samuel von
Punishment
Queens
Rae, Douglas
Rahab
Rawls, John
Reason
Rebecca
Rebellion
Reformation
Religion: protection of, from state interference; and heresy; business of true religion and nature of Christianity; and salvation of souls; church as free and voluntary society; definition of church; power and laws of church; marks of true church; purpose of church; force of ecclesiastical authority; and outward worship; and idolatry; and articles of faith; and overthrow of government; ecclesiastical assemblies and meetings thought seditious; and schism. See alsoCatholicism
Religious persecution. SeePersecution
Religious toleration. SeeToleration
Reparations
Representation. See alsoMajority rule
Resistance
Reuben
Revelation
Revolution, American
Revolution of 1688,
Revolutions
Rights, theorization of
Riley, Patrick
Roman Catholicism. SeeCatholicism
Romans, Epistle to
Rome and Romans
Rorty, Richard
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
Royal Society Rulers. SeeAbsolute monarchy; Kings and princes
Salmanasser
Salvation of souls. See alsoReligion
Samuel
Sarah
Saturn
Saul
Scanlon, Tim
Schism
Schumpeter, Joseph
Scotland
Scripture: Noah and Noah’s sons in; on obedience to parents; creation of Adam and Eve in; Adam’s title to sovereignty by donation in; and humankind’s dominion over animals; Adam’s dominion over Eve in; Jacob and Esau in; Cain and Abel in; on dispersion of Babel; on marriage; on nature of Christianity; on church; on idolatry; and different Christian churches; anti-authoritarian reading of; Filmer’s reading of. See alsoJews; specific books of the Bible; and specific persons in Bible
Seir, Mount
Selden, John
Self-preservation
Separation of powers. SeeExecutive power; Legislative power
Servants
Seth
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooperst Earl of
Shapiro, Ian
Shem
Sibthorp, Robert
Sidney, Algernon
Silver
Simmons, A. John
Sins
Skinner, Quentin
Slavery
Smith, Rogers
Social choice theory
Social Contract(Rousseau)
Society. SeeCivil society; Political society
Socinians
Sodomy
Solomon
Soto, Ferdinando
Soul, salvation of
Sovereignty: of Adam; by creation; by donation; by subjection of Eve; by fatherhood; fatherhood and property as fountains of; war and peace as marks of; definition of; within family
Sparta
Spartacus
State of nature: and equality; and freedom; and liberty; and judges and punishment; state of war versus; historical accounts of; powers of humans in; Hobbes on; definition of. See alsoMankind/humankind
State of war. SeeWar and peace
Strauss, Leo
Suarez, Francisco
Subjection: of children; of slaves; to legislative power; of princes to laws of God and nature
Subordination of powers of commonwealth
Succession: and monarchy by inheritance from Adam; of Hebrew kings; and primogeniture; questions on; lawyers’ determination of; reestablishment of right of lineal succession to paternal government
Suffrage. SeeWomen’s suffrage
Swiss
Sydenham, Thomas
Tamerlain
Tarcov, Nathan
Taxation
Taylor, Charles
Thamar
Theology
Theorization of rights
Theory of Justice(Rawls)
Thiefs
Timothy, Epistles of
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Toleration: and Edict of Nantes in France; Mill on; overview of Locke on; for Protestant nonconformists; and nature of Christianity; persecution versus; civil power versus salvation of souls; church as free and voluntary society; definition of church; power and laws of church; and marks of true church; purpose of church; and excommunication; extent of duty of and requirements concerning; force of ecclesiastical authority; prohibition against private persons and churches invading civil rights of others; clergy’s duty for; magistrate’s duty for; and outward worship; and idolatry; and articles of faith; and heresy; and overthrow of government; and atheism; of ecclesiastical assemblies and meetings; and schism; summary of Locke’s argument on
Toleration Act of 1689
Tories
Treason
Troy
Trust
Tullock, Gordon
Turks
Two Treatises(Locke): dating of, x; Locke’s acknowledgment of authorship of; Locke’s preface to; as reply to Filmer’s Patriarcha,; text of first treatise; text of second treatise; Locke’s assessment of; summary of second treatise
Tyranny
Tyrrell, James
Ulysses
Unanimity rule
United States. SeeAmerica
USSR
Usurpation
Utopia
Vega, Garcilasso de la. SeeGar-cilasso de la Vega
Venice
Violence. SeeConquest and conquerors; Force; Rebellion; War and peace
Von Leyden, Wolfgang
Wampompeke
War and peace: federative power of; and Israelites; as marks of sovereignty; political power and war; state of nature versus state of war; avoidance of war; and American Indians; captives of war; and conquest; Christ as Prince of Peace; religious intolerance and war
West Indies
Whigs
William III, King
Winzerus, Ninian
Wives. SeeFamily; Marriage; Mothers and maternal authority
Women’s status. See alsoFamily; Marriage; Mothers and maternal authority
Women’s suffrage
Wood, Ellen
Wootton, David
Workmanship model
World. SeeEarth
Worship. See alsoReligion
Xerxes
Younger and elder. SeeBrothers; Elder and younger
Zechariah, book of
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