28.5% of matchups won
302 matchups
Elo 1203
tracked 2025/05/27 → 2026/06/30
mission: Exploring politics and totalitarianism · Political theory · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing32%
picked as helping wellbeing
222 matchups
18%
picked as hurting wellbeing
80 matchups
On balance people see it as helping.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
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Thomas Hobbes
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28.2% wins · English philosopher (1588–1679)
02
Walter Benjamin
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39.8% wins · German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
03
Jürgen Habermas
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44.3% wins · German sociologist and philosopher (born 1929)
04
Friedrich Engels
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29.9% wins · German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
05
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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48.9% wins · German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
Known for
- Origins of Totalitarianism
- Human Condition publication
- Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Intellectual activism
- Teaching roles in universities
Based on 302 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/06/30. Full rankings ·
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