Who is the leading (in terms of quality not fame) moral/political/legal philosopher in the world today?

Answer 1

to me Karl Popper cannot be overrun as yet.
Somehow Frederic Beigbeder seems to be the youngest and most brillant star yet to shine ever more in the following decades

Answer 2

Ayn Rand. Because her philosophy of individual freedom protected by the rule of law sets up a society where creativity and productivity are rewarded instead of punished. A society where there is no question about what you deserve, what ever you can earn. And that wealth first has to be created before it can be distributed.

She recognized that it is the rule of law that protects freedom not democracy. Democracy is nothing more than mob rule and replaces a tyrant with the tyranny of the mob.

an example from Atlas Shrugged

“that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade..with reason…not force as their final arbiter … it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability… and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward.”

Answer 3

My vote goes to Jimmy Carter--one of the most benevolent, moral, altruistic, sincere individuals on the scene today. I say that being neither a Republican nor a Democrat--just another citizen of this messed-up, hate-ridden world we live in.

Answer 4

Popper is a joke.
Rand is science fiction.
Carter is an ex-president.

Jurgen Habermas
Richard Rorty
Peter Singer
Andrew Feenberg

Answer 5

Though she died in 1982 its Ayn Rand in terms of quality for sure.

Answer 6

GOD