Comparison is a key component of legal reasoning. We move merrily from like to like within the doctrine of precedent. We invoke comparison whenever we distinguish or apply a case. This Article begins by elucidating how comparison is present in law. The Article shows how law cannot function without comparison, and how the legal world skips over the central role comparison plays in these matters. The Article explores the literature on legal comparison and draws on insights from philosophy, comparative law, and anthropology to better understand comparison in practice. This Article argues that while we are entangled in the questions of sameness and difference, of finding the function and tying together, we are still not asking the question of comparison. What is function and how is it related to comparison? Inspired by James Tully’s writings, the Article explores the aspectival views of the legal world suggested by the different games of comparison. The Article draws on Stephen Mulhall’s work on Wittgenstein’s seeing as, aspect dawning, and aspect blindness to further ask about our relationship to comparison. The Article shows how mainstream comparisons are ontic comparisons that think togetherness through the comparatist. The comparatist steers the belonging together and (un)makes the meaning of all things in mainstream comparison. The argument builds on earlier work by Igor Stramignoni, showing how the Western legal tradition is within a kind of Heideggerian calculative thinking. The Article explores the possibility of other kinds of comparison through Stramignoni’s poetic comparisons. This Article calls on us to slow down our comparisons and begin to question comparison itself.

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比较问题

比较是法律推理的关键组成部分。在先例的教义中，我们从喜欢到喜欢快乐地移动。每当我们区分或应用案例时，我们都会调用比较。本文首先阐明比较在法律中是如何存在的。这篇文章展示了法律如何在没有比较的情况下发挥作用，以及法律界如何跳过比较在这些问题中发挥的核心作用。本文探讨了有关法律比较的文献，并借鉴了哲学、比较法和人类学的见解，以更好地理解实践中的比较。本文认为，虽然我们纠结于相同与差异、寻找功能和联系的问题，但我们仍然没有提出比较的问题。什么是函数，它与比较有何关系？受詹姆斯·塔利 (James Tully) 著作的启发，本文探讨了不同比较游戏所暗示的法律世界的侧面观点。这篇文章借鉴了斯蒂芬·穆尔哈尔关于维特根斯坦的视作、方面的曙光和方面的盲目性，以进一步询问我们与比较的关系。这篇文章展示了主流比较是如何通过比较主义者来思考团结的本体比较。比较主义者将归属感引导在一起，并（不）在主流比较中赋予所有事物的意义。该论点建立在伊戈尔·斯特拉米尼奥尼 (Igor Stramignoni) 早期工作的基础上，展示了西方法律传统如何融入海德格尔式的计算思维中。文章通过斯特拉米尼奥尼的诗意比较探讨了其他类型比较的可能性。这篇文章呼吁我们放慢我们的比较，开始质疑比较本身。