Intellectual Tier List

 

Tier list of the greatest intellectuals of all time:


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

A+: Emmy Noether, David Hilbert, Henri Poincare, Joseph Fourier, William Blake, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Hafez, Archimedes, Baruch Spinoza, Edith Massey, Zarathustra

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

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

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

B: J. J. Rousseau, Homer, authors of the Deuteronomic histories, Heracleitos, Ernst Mach, Kurt Gödel, Claude Shannon, Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Kip Thorne, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Al-Khwarizmi, Rosa Luxemburg

B-: Max Planck, Blaise Pascal, 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

C+: Marie Curie, Aristotle, Leo Strauss, 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

C: Sigmund Freud, Adam Smith, Walter Benjamin, Bernhard Riemann, Hugh Everett, Friedrich Engels, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil, Bertrand Russell, Pyotr Kropotkin, Michael Heinrich, William S. Burroughs, Leonard Cohen

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

D+: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Murray Bookchin, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen Hawking

D: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Theodor Adorno

D-: J.S. Mill, John Rawls, John Dewey, Percy Shelley, Don Knuth, Karl Popper, Mikhail Bakunin

E+: Antonio Gramsci, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G. K. Chesterton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Andre Breton

E: Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Jaspers, Paul, Herbert Rosendorfer, Gertrude Stein, Alain Badiou, Jeremy Bentham, Stephen Wolfram

E-: Susan Sontag, Peter Sloterdijk, Felix Guattari, Edwin Hubble, Jean-François Lyotard, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Derek Parfit, Ilya Prigogine, Daniel C. Dennett, Francis Fukuyama, Mark Twain

F+: Karl Polanyi, Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, Mohandas Gandhi, Ayn Rand, Lenin, Trotsky, Ludwig von Mises, Camille Paglia, Niels Bohr, Cornel West, Robert Trivers

F: Curtis Yarvin, Steven Pinker, Murray Rothbard, Benjamin Franklin, David Deutsch

F-: Michael Parenti, I.F. Stone, Saul Kripke, Sam Harris

Weirdo Tier: Immanuel Kant 

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