Saturday, June 6, 2009
So which philosophers have had the most impact on legal scholarship?
With more than 100 responses to the latest poll, here's the top five:
1. Kant (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices) |
2. Aristotle loses to Kant by 49–40 |
3. Locke loses to Kant by 48–37, loses to Aristotle by 48–46 |
4. Rawls loses to Kant by 49–36, loses to Locke by 47–42 |
5. Mill (John Stuart) loses to Kant by 47–37, loses to Locke by 43–41 |
A reasonable top five, though I'd be hard-pressed to explain the ordinal rank, and I wonder whether these results would be borne out by a citation analysis of law reviews. A topic for a different day.
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2009/06/so-which-philosophers-have-had-the-most-impact-on-legal-scholarship.html