PHILOSOPHER

Lon L. Fuller

1902 - 1978

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Lon Luvois Fuller (June 15, 1902 – April 8, 1978) was an American legal philosopher best known as a proponent of a secular and procedural form of natural law theory. Fuller was a professor of law at Harvard Law School for many years, and is noted in American law for his contributions to both jurisprudence and the law of contracts. His 1958 debate with the British legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart in the Harvard Law Review (the Hart–Fuller debate) was important in framing the modern conflict between legal positivism and natural law theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lon L. Fuller has received more than 366,943 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Lon L. Fuller is the 1,008th most popular philosopher (down from 906th in 2019), the 4,779th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,107th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Lon L. Fuller ranks 1,008 out of 1,267. Before him are Isidore of Alexandria, Arulenus Rusticus, Tariq Ramadan, Amelius, Ogyū Sorai, and Stanley Cavell. After him are Androcles, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Heinrich Khunrath, Alfonso Reyes, Jacques Cujas, and Pierre Lévy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Lon L. Fuller ranks 191. Before him are Henri Saint Cyr, Moderato Wisintainer, Miriam Hopkins, Flora Robson, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and Georgette Heyer. After him are Eva May, Ida Siekmann, David Arellano, Juan José Tramutola, George Kingsley Zipf, and Veniamin Kaverin. Among people deceased in 1978, Lon L. Fuller ranks 136. Before him are Liane Augustin, Charles Best, Claude Dauphin, Gene Tunney, Jean Nicolas, and Alexander Gerschenkron. After him are Georges Speicher, Roman Karmen, Mario Varglien, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Costante Girardengo, and Lennie Tristano.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lon L. Fuller ranks 4,779 out of 20,380. Before him are William Perry (1927), David Hedison (1927), Ted Nugent (1948), Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), and Mira Sorvino (1967). After him are Swoosie Kurtz (1944), John Mayer (1977), Huey P. Newton (1942), Jon Hamm (1971), James A. Michener (1907), and Craig Mello (1960).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Lon L. Fuller ranks 45. Before him are Lysander Spooner (1808), Edmund Gettier (1927), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Harry Frankfurt (1929), Ram Dass (1931), and Stanley Cavell (1926). After him are Josiah Royce (1855), Mary Daly (1928), Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Paul Kurtz (1925), Amina Wadud (1952), and Barrington Moore Jr. (1913).

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