100 Most Influential Philosophers in my Opinion

Guess these Philosophers, which in my Opinion had the most influence on Philosophy itself, as well as the rest of the world. Some of the listed philosophers didn't wrote books, so I tried to give hints by describing their main distributions or giving a famous quote.

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#	Work or Concept	Answer
1	The Republic	Plato
2	Metaphysics	Aristotle
3	Critique of Pure Reason	Immanuel Kant
4	Discourse on the Method	Rene Descartes
5	The City of God	Augustine of Hippo
6	An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding	John Locke
7	“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”	Socrates
8	Analects	Confucius
9	Tao Te Ching	Laozi
10	Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order	Baruch Spinoza
11	Das Kapital	Karl Marx
12	The Phenomenology of Spirit	G.W.F. Hegel
13	Tractatus Logicus-Philosophicus	Ludwig Wittgenstein
14	Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas
15	Nothing comes from nothing	Parmenides
16	Atoms	Democritus
17	The Social Contract	Jean-Jaques Rousseau
18	Being and Nothingness	Jean-Paul Sartre
19	Thus spoke Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietzsche
20	Ataraxia and Aponia	Epicurus
21	Founder of Stoicism	Zeno of Citium
22	Democracy and Education	John Dewey
23	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	David Hume
24	"All is Number"	Pythagoras
25	"everything flows"	Heraclitus
26	Candide	Voltaire
27	Monadology	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
28	Course of Positive Philosophy	Auguste Comte
29	Discipline and Punishment	Michel Foucault
30	The Rebel	Albert Camus
31	Being and Time	Martin Heidegger
32	The Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir
33	The Enneads	Plotinus
34	Introduced Medieval Scholasticism to Aristotle	Albertus Magnus
35	Proslogion	Anselm of Canterbury
36	Nominalism	William Ockham
37	The Prince	Niccolo Machiavelli
38	Grammatique	Jaques Derrida
39	Dialectics of Enlightenment (Co-Author)	Theodor W Adorno
40	Dialectics of Enlightenment (Co-Author)	Max Horkheimer
41	A History of Western Philosophy	Bertrand Russell
42	Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes
43	The Spirit of the Laws	Baron de Montesquieu
44	Founder of Phenomenology	Edmund Husserl
45	A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge	George Berkeley
46	The metaphysics of the healing	Avicenna
47	Pensées	Blaise Pascal
48	Scientific Method, father of Empiricism	Francis Bacon
49	The World as Will and Representation	Arthur Schopenhauer
50	A Treatise On God As First Principle	John Duns Scotus

#	Work or Concept	Answer
51	In Praise of Folly	Erasmus
52	Cynicism	Diogenes
53	Founder of the School of Scepticism	Pyrrho
54	The Foundations of Arithmetic	Gottlob Frege
55	Either/Or	Søren Kierkegaard
56	The search after truth	Nicolas Malebranche
57	Multiple realizability	Hilary Putnam
58	Chance, love, and logic	Charles Sanders Peirce
59	The Varieties of Religious Experience	William James
60	Anti-Oedipus (Co-Author)	Gilles Deleuze
61	Anti-Oedipus (Co-Author)	Félix Guattari
62	The Death of the Author	Roland Barthes
63	Écrits	Jacques Lacan
64	Meaning And Necessity	Rudolf Carnap
65	The Open Society and its Enemies	Karl Popper
66	The Opus Maius	Roger Bacon
67	Gender Trouble	Judith Butler
68	Prison Notebooks	Antonio Gramsci
69	Tristes Tropiques	Claude Lévi-Strauss
70	Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language	John Searle
71	Naming and Necessity	Saul Aaron Kripke
72	Word and Object	Willard Van Orman Quine
73	System of Transcendental Idealism	Friedrich Schelling
74	Foundations of the Science of Knowledge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte
75	Utopia	Thomas More
76	The Vision of God	Nicholas of Cusa
77	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	Thomas Kuhn
78	De clementia	Seneca
79	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius
80	The Essence of Christianity	Ludwig Feuerbach
81	Process and Reality	Alfred North Whitehead
82	On Liberty	John Stuart Mill
83	An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation	Jeremy Bentham
84	Important medieval german mystic	Meister Eckhart
85	The Ego and Its Own	Max Stirner
86	God and the State	Mikhail Bakunin
87	The Conquest of Bread	Peter Kropotkin
88	Creative Evolution	Henri Bergson
89	The Society of the Spectacle	Guy Debord
90	The Trouble With Being Born	E.M. Cioran
91	The Wretched of the Earth	Fitz Fannon
92	Capital Realism	Mark Fisher
93	Gravity and Grace	Simone Weil
94	The Sublime Object of Ideology	Slavoj Zizek
95	The Wheel of Fortune	Boethius
96	Simulacra and Simulation	Jean Baudrillard
97	Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism	Frederic Jameson
98	The Postmodern Condition	Jean-François Lyotard
99	Proofs and Refutations	Imre Lakatos
100	I and Thou	Martin Buber

Level 69

Aug 4, 2019

Great quiz, but Berkeley is misspelled.

Level 60

Aug 4, 2019

Fixed, thank you

Level 77

Aug 4, 2019

A grand quiz. I'm afraid that, even with the aid of Monty Python, I only scored 24%.

Level 36

Aug 31, 2020

Frantz Fanon is somehow misspelled 'Fitz Fannon'.

I find the inclusion of a view non-Western philosophers almost worse than to include none at all. Given the rather many medieval philosophers included, the fact that only one---Avicenna---wrote in Arabic isn't quite appropriate. Including Albertus Magnus but not Averroes, for example, doesn't seem fitting.

The same goes for Chinese philosophy (surely Mencius has been more influential than quite a few listed here!). Indian philosophy is not represented at all.