53.7% of matchups won
324 matchups
Elo 1557
tracked 2025/05/31 → 2026/10/08
mission: Explore human nature and knowledge · Philosophy and history · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing54%
picked as helping wellbeing
279 matchups
53%
picked as hurting wellbeing
45 matchups
People are split on it.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Adam Smith
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53.0% wins · Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
02
Aldous Huxley
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55.6% wins · English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
03
John Stuart Mill
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66.7% wins · British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
04
Thomas Hobbes
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28.2% wins · English philosopher (1588–1679)
05
Giambattista Vico
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36.0% wins · Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist
Known for
- Established empirical philosophy
- Authored 'A Treatise of Human Nature'
- Pioneered theory of induction
- Wrote 'The History of England'
- Influenced modern philosophy
Based on 324 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/10/08. Full rankings ·
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