Intellectual Tier List

 

Tier list of the greatest intellectuals of all time:


S: Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Plato, William Shakespeare, authors of Genesis, Henri Poincare, Franz Kafka

A+: Emmy Noether, Joseph Fourier, William Blake, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Hafez, Archimedes, Baruch Spinoza, Edith Massey, Leonhard Euler, Eratosthenes, unknown Babylonian mathematician(s)

A: James Clark Maxwell, Évariste Galois, G.W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Schelling, Ernst Mach, Dante Alighieri, Georg Cantor, Gottfried Leibniz, author of proto-Isaiah, Rumi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mileva Marić, David Hilbert, Zarathustra

A-: Erwin Schrödinger, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hendrik Lorentz, Johann Sebastian Bach, John von Neumann, Edward Witten, John Coltrane, Michelangelo, Guy Debord, Aristarchus of Samos, authors of Mahabharata, composers of the Purusha Sukta, Xenophanes

B+: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Milton, Charles Darwin, author of Kohelet/Ecclesiastes, author of John, author of Matthew, Galileo Galilei, Pythagoras, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Harry Partch, Philolaus of Croton, Orlando Gibbons, Charles Augustin de Coulomb, author of "Thunder: Perfect Mind", Thomas Hobbes, Blaise Pascal, Duns Scotus, Samuel Beckett, Ibn Khaldun

B: Homer, Sandro Botticelli, authors of the Deuteronomic histories, St. Augustine of Hippo, Heracleitos, Kurt Gödel, Claude Shannon, Epicurus, Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Kip Thorne, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Al-Khwarizmi, Rosa Luxemburg, Christiaan Huygens, St. Thomas Aquinas, Heinrich Hertz, Speusippus, Siddhartha Gautama, Lao Tzu

B-: Aristotle, Lewis Carroll, Max Planck, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Sanders Pierce, Douglas Hofstadter, Louis de Broglie, David Bohm, Max Born, Ludwig Boltzmann, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rene Descartes, Niccolo Machiavelli, Miguel de Cervantes, Wu Cheng'en, Pierre de Fermat, Mozi, Alfred Bucherer, James Joyce

C+: Nicolas Copernicus, Marie Curie, Ernst Zermelo, Max Stirner, Simone de Beauvoir, Werner Heisenberg, Walt Whitman, Bob Dylan, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Confucius, Gyorgy Lukacs, Leo Tolstoy, Georges Bataille, James Burnham, Alexander Grothendieck, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonard Cohen

C: Berthold Brecht, Sigmund Freud, Adam Smith, Walter Benjamin, Bernhard Riemann, Hugh Everett, Leo Strauss, Friedrich Engels, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil, Bertrand Russell, Pyotr Kropotkin, Michael Heinrich, William S. Burroughs, Paul Langevin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Abraham Fraenkel, Werner Bonefeld, Karl Korsch

C-: Richard Feynman, Jacques Lacan, Lazare Carnot, W.V.O. Quine, Amos, Alan Turing, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Harold Bloom, Francis Bacon, Voltaire, Antonie Pannekoek, J.W. von Goethe, Emma Goldman, Guillaume Apollinaire, Sun Tzu, W. A. Mozart, Hypatia, Imre Lakatos, Errico Malatesta, Mary Shelley, David Hume, Gottlob Frege, Arthur Rimbaud, John Cage, Paul

D+: Rudolf Carnap, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Murray Bookchin, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen Hawking, Max Abraham, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Allan Bloom, Oswald Spengler

D: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Theodor Adorno, Oskar Morgenstern, Rudolf Rocker

D-: J.S. Mill, John Rawls, John Dewey, Percy Shelley, Don Knuth, Karl Popper, Mikhail Bakunin, G. K. Chesterton, Gertrude Stein, Joseph Conrad, Georges Sorel

E+: Antonio Gramsci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Andre Breton, Allen Ginsberg, Derek Parfit, Peggy Churchland, Herbert Rosendorfer

E: Carl Jung, Arthur Schopenhauer, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Jaspers, Alain Badiou, Jeremy Bentham, Stephen Wolfram, Raymond Smullyan, Martin Gardner, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky

E-: Immanuel Wallerstein, Susan Sontag, Peter Sloterdijk, Felix Guattari, Edwin Hubble, Jean-François Lyotard, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ilya Prigogine, Daniel C. Dennett, Francis Fukuyama, Karl Polanyi, Thomas J.J. Altizer, Amiri Baraka, Roland Barthes

F++: Søren Kierkegaard, Mircea Eliade

F+: Samir Amin, Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, Mohandas Gandhi, Ayn Rand, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Ludwig von Mises, Camille Paglia, Niels Bohr, Cornel West, Robert Trivers, Mark Twain, David Deutsch, Edward Said, Antonio Negri

F: Curtis Yarvin, Steven Pinker, Murray Rothbard, Benjamin Franklin, René Girard, Harry Jaffa, Sylvia Federici, Michael Hardt

F-: Michael Parenti, I.F. Stone, Saul Kripke, Sam Harris, Martin Luther, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Christopher Lasch, Isaiah Berlin, Jordan Peterson, Carl Schmitt

So stupid that they don't deserve to be on this list: Gad Saad, Harvey Mansfield

Weirdo Tier: Immanuel Kant 

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