| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Disciple of #1 and author of "The Republic" | Plato | 97%
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| He knew that he knew nothing | Socrates | 94%
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| Communist and partner of Friedrich Engels | Karl Marx | 92%
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| Teacher of Alexander the Great | Aristotle | 91%
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| "I think, therefore I am" | René Descartes | 91%
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| "Critique of Pure Reason" author who never left Königsberg | Immanuel Kant | 85%
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| Author of "The Prince" whose name became synonymous with ruthlessness | Niccolò Machiavelli | 80%
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| Wrote about the "Übermensch" | Friedrich Nietzsche | 78%
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| Master Kong's teachings shaped East Asian societies (Latinized name) | Confucius | 72%
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| Existentialist who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 | Jean-Paul Sartre | 71%
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| Central figure in Taoism and author of the "Tao Te King" | Laozi | 68%
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| He argued for an absolute monarch, whom he called "Leviathan" | Thomas Hobbes | 66%
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| Platonic lover of the above and figurehead of feminism | Simone de Beauvoir | 65%
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| Compared human existence with the fate of Sisyphos | Albert Camus | 63%
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| Renowned orator and opponent of Caesar († 43 BC) | Marcus Tullius Cicero | 57%
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| Enlightenment thinker who idealized mankind's State of Nature | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 55%
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| This disobedient fellow lived next to Walden Pond | Henry David Thoreau | 38%
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