Forty Renowned Philosophers

Do your best to name forty of Philosophy's all-time greatest thinkers. They are -pretty much- ordered chronologically, though the contemporary philosophers overlap a lot.
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Triangle
Pythagoras
Filial piety
Confucius
Gadfly
Socrates
Philosopher King
Plato
Nicomachean
Aristotle
Don't worry; be happy
Epicurus
Confessions about pears
Saint Augustine
Sum of all theology
Thomas Aquinas
The ends justify the means
Machiavelli
I think, therefore I am
Descartes
Property
John Locke
Western Pan[en]theist
Spinoza
Windowless monad
Leibniz
Not just a prestigious college
Berkeley
Is/ought
Hume
Before civilization, we were nice
Rousseau
It's imperative that you get this one
Kant
Panopticon
Bentham
Rhymes with bagel
Hegel
Will to Live
Schopenhauer
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Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
Christian Existentialist
Kierkegaard
Capitalism sucks
Karl Marx
Father of American Psychology
William James
Ubermensch
Nietzsche
Phenomenology
Husserl
Education as growth
John Dewey
Logical language
Bertrand Russell
Language is a game.
Wittgenstein
Being unto death
Heidegger
Authenticity, bad faith
Sartre
The Human Condition
Arendt
The Beaver
Beauvoir
Three Dogmas of Empiricism
Quine
Sisyphus
Camus
Veil of ignorance
John Rawls
Genealogy, archaeology, power
Foucault
Public sphere
Habermas
Deconstruction
Derrida
Final Vocabulary... irony
Richard Rorty
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Level 57
Aug 10, 2020
No Hobbes? :(
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Level 36
Nov 11, 2020
I thought he was more reviled than renowned, but if it's any consolation, there are many great thinkers missing from this list. : )
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Level 26
Apr 12, 2021
Favorite clue on the list is "rhymes with bagel"