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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. In his widely discussed 1964 book The Morality of Law, Fuller argues that all systems of law contain an "internal morality" that imposes on individuals a presumptive obligation of obedience. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lon L. Fuller is the 1,034th most popular philosopher (down from 1,008th in 2019), the 5,708th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,779th in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Lon L. Fuller ranks 1,034 out of 1,267. Before him are Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Joachim Camerarius, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, R. M. Hare, Abdolkarim Soroush, and Rémi Brague. After him are Hubert Dreyfus, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Friedrich Paulsen, Justus Möser, Ada Adler, and Aristobulus of Alexandria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Lon L. Fuller ranks 195. Before him are Jan Kiepura, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Ida Siekmann, Veniamin Kaverin, and Ansel Adams. After him are Max Abegglen, Yakov Smushkevich, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Albert Namatjira, Dulce María Loynaz, and Pierre Brunet. Among people deceased in 1978, Lon L. Fuller ranks 142. Before him are Jean Nicolas, Georges Speicher, Federico Chávez, Germain Derycke, Rubén Morán, and Zenta Mauriņa. After him are Toivo Hyytiäinen, Joseph Colombo, John D. Rockefeller III, Robert Menzies, Roman Karmen, and Philip K. Hitti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lon L. Fuller ranks 5,708 out of 20,380. Before him are Don Murray (1929), Milo Ventimiglia (1977), Michael Gross (1947), Amanda Righetti (1983), Mark Rolston (1956), and Myrtle Bachelder (1908). After him are William Christie (1944), Beulah Louise Henry (1888), Cindy Blackman Santana (1959), Maceo Parker (1943), Eileen Heckart (1919), and Hubert Dreyfus (1929).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Lon L. Fuller ranks 47. Before him are Sandra Harding (1935), David Lewis (1941), Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), Ram Dass (1931), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), and Lysander Spooner (1808). After him are Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Mary Whiton Calkins (1863), Susan George (1934), Amina Wadud (1952), Edmund Gettier (1927), and Mary Daly (1928).

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