POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Robert Filmer, Jeremy Bentham, Homo Economicus
28 Jan 2020
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Patriarchal concept of the family lies at the heart of liberalism. Hobbes and locke need to counter filmer"s argument. Locke brings marriage into liberalism through contract but the father must naturally rule. Second argument, the father bestows estates on children so children must obey. Hobbes and locke cannot do without the family. Later utilitarian writers jeremy bentham and james mill confirm this. Economic change and the transformation of the household. Household exists for economic production and sexual reproduction. Aristotle: experience, practical reason prepares him for interacting in the polis. Polis the realm of the citizen but also of ethics and virtue and of abstract reason. Family a model for the governing, kinship. Household remains the site of production and reproduction. Both men and women producers and both owe produce to the noble landowner. Subordination follows her into workforce (lower wage) Pateman: a separating out and forgetting of the family. Centred on child and care of child.
