Statistics for Famous Philosophers

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Disciple of #1 and author of "The Republic"	Plato	96%
He knew that he knew nothing	Socrates	94%
Communist and partner of Friedrich Engels	Karl Marx	91%
Teacher of Alexander the Great	Aristotle	87%
"I think, therefore I am"	René Descartes	87%
"Critique of Pure Reason" author who never left Königsberg	Immanuel Kant	81%
Wrote about the "Übermensch"	Friedrich Nietzsche	79%
Author of "The Prince" whose name became synonymous with ruthlessness	Niccolò Machiavelli	79%
Master Kong's teachings shaped East Asian societies (Latinized name)	Confucius	72%
Existentialist who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964	Jean-Paul Sartre	72%
Central figure in Taoism and author of the "Tao Te King"	Laozi	66%
Platonic lover of the above and figurehead of feminism	Simone de Beauvoir	66%
Compared human existence with the fate of Sisyphos	Albert Camus	64%
He argued for an absolute monarch, whom he called "Leviathan"	Thomas Hobbes	64%
Enlightenment thinker who idealized mankind's State of Nature	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	60%
Renowned orator and opponent of Caesar († 43 BC)	Marcus Tullius Cicero	60%
This disobedient fellow lived next to Walden Pond	Henry David Thoreau	38%