Two Treatises of Government or Two Treatises of Government In the Former The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer and His Followers Are Detected and Overthrown The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original Extent and End of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmers Pa...