section_path: Property in philosophy/Modern philosophy/Robert Filmer (17th century)
section_name: Robert Filmer (17th century)
paragraph_text: Robert Filmer (17th century)
  
  Another member of the Hobbes/Harrington generation, Sir Robert Filmer, reached conclusions much like Hobbes', but through Biblical exegesis. Filmer said that the institution of kingship is analogous to that of fatherhood, that subjects are still, children, whether obedient or unruly and that property rights are akin to the household goods that a father may dole out among his children—his to take back and dispose of according to his pleasure.