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Philosopher	Born in...	Known for e.g.		% Correct
Boëthius	Rome / Kingdom of Italy	The Wheel of Fortune/Rota fortunae	1-500 CE	100%
Thomas More	City of London / England	Utopia, Hatred/rage for Martin Luther	1000-1500 CE	78%
Voltaire	Paris / Kingdom of France	Freedom of speech, freedom of religion	1500-1800 CE	78%
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Vienna / Austria-Hungary	Language-games, family resemblance	1800-1900 CE	78%
David Hume	Edinburgh / Scotland	Bundle theory, science of man	1500-1800 CE	56%
Immanuel Kant	Königsberg / Prussia	Nebular hypothesis, Kantian ethics	1500-1800 CE	56%
Baruch Spinoza	Amsterdam / Dutch Republic	Affect, Spinozism	1500-1800 CE	44%
Søren Kierkegaard	Copenhagen / Denmark-Norway	Present age, existential despair	1800-1900 CE	44%
Kitarō Nishida	Unokema / Japan	Basho, absolute nothingness	1800-1900 CE	44%
Baltasar Gracián	Belmonte de Gracián / Spain	Gracián's maxims, pessimism	1500-1800 CE	11%
Sri Aurobindo	Calcutta / British raj	Supermind, intermediate zone	1800-1900 CE	11%
Augustine of Hippo	Thagaste / Roman Empire	Original sin, concuspicence/"sinful lust"	1-500 CE	11%
Avicenna	Afshona / Samanid Empire	"Floating man", "Proof of the Truthful"	500-1000 CE	0%
Al-Ma'arri	al-Ma'arra / Emirate of Aleppo	Veganism, opposition to religion	500-1000 CE	0%
Cicero	Arpinum / Roman Republic	Problem of evil, summum bonum	BCE	0%
Anton Wilhelm Amo	Axim	Critique of Descartes' philosophy of mind	1500-1800 CE	0%
Laozi	Chujen village / State of Chu	Daoism, wu wei	BCE	0%
Averroes	Córdoba / Almoravid Empire	Unity of the intellect	1000-1500 CE	0%
Arthur Schopenhauer	Danzig / Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	Schopenhauerian aesthetics, philosophical pessimism	1500-1800 CE	0%
Epictetus	Hierapolis / Phrygia	Memento mori, philosophy is a way of life	1-500 CE	0%
Mozi	Lu / Zhou Kingdom	Mohism, authenticity over ritual	BCE	0%
Albert Camus	Mondovi / Algeria	Absurdism	1900-	0%
Edmund Husserl	Proßnitz / Austrian Empire	Phenomenology, indirect realism	1800-1900 CE	0%
Thomas Aquinas	Roccasecca / Kingdom of Sicily	Peripatetic axiom, Double effect	1000-1500 CE	0%
Epicurus	Samos	Aponia, atomic swerve	BCE	0%
Diogenes	Sinope	Cynicism, cosmopolitanism	BCE	0%
Chrysippus	Soli / Cilicia	Stoicism, pneuma	BCE	0%
Aristotle	Stagira / Chalcidian League	Syllogism, virtue ethics	BCE	0%
David Sztybel	Toronto / Canada	Animal ethics	1900-	0%
Rosa Luxemburg	Zamość / Russian Empire	Revolutionary socialist democracy	1800-1900 CE	0%