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PHILOSOPHER

Lysander Spooner

1808 - 1887

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Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 — May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphletist, political philosopher, Unitarian and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition. Spooner was a strong advocate of the labor movement, anti-authoritarian and individualist anarchism in his political views. His economic and political ideology has been identified by some modern scholars with libertarian socialism, left-libertarianism, free-market socialism, and mutualism, while others identify them as right-libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, and propertarianist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lysander Spooner has received more than 659,831 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lysander Spooner is the 927th most popular philosopher (up from 928th in 2019), the 4,327th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,394th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Lysander Spooner ranks 927 out of 1,081. Before him are Huang Zongxi, Thrasyllus of Mendes, Gabriel Biel, Wei Yuan, Ajita Kesakambali, and Édouard Le Roy. After him are Charondas, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Critolaus, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Samuel Alexander, and Ogyū Sorai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Lysander Spooner ranks 40. Before him are Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, James Nasmyth, and Henry Cole. After him are August von Werder, Auguste Franchomme, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Michael William Balfe, Josef Kajetán Tyl, and Sofia Adlersparre. Among people deceased in 1887, Lysander Spooner ranks 31. Before him are Joseph Whitworth, J. C. Jacobsen, Moritz Wagner, Emma Lazarus, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, and August Friedrich Pott. After him are Otto Lesser, August von Werder, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Alvan Clark.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lysander Spooner ranks 4,327 out of 18,182. Before him are Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822), Chuck Daly (1930), William Steig (1907), David Butler (1894), Jim Beaver (1950), and David Koresh (1959). After him are Julianna Margulies (1966), Joseph Hooker (1814), George Duke (1946), Sylvester (1947), Sienna Miller (1981), and Tommy Flanagan (1930).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Lysander Spooner ranks 40. Before him are David Lewis (1941), Edmund Gettier (1927), Susanne Langer (1895), James Mark Baldwin (1861), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), and Lon L. Fuller (1902). After him are Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Susan George (1934), Ram Dass (1931), Mary Daly (1928), and Harry Frankfurt (1929).

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