Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 52/@comment-103.248.14.134-20150512130413/@comment-25598352-20150512224644

Problem is that there are  A LOT  of influential Western philosophers and outside of Socrates and Neitzche we don't have any hints. Plato/Aristotle are likely the leaders because they've been mentioned before (I think), but it would make Neitzche even weirder. In between you have Cicero (probably not in the same season as Ceasar), Aquinus (too reliigous), Descartes, Locke, Rosseau, Voltaire, Kant, Marx (unlikely but possible), Camus, Kirkegaard, and Heidigger... among others. I'd say that if there's a modern third party with Neitzche, Kirkegaard and Kant are most likely since they're from the same time period/philosophical movements and less obscure than Heidigger. Although it's definitely possible that at least one of the Enlightenment ones gets in since they're famous and definitely have material. I hope not for Voltaire since he's more of a satarist than a philosopher and could easily have his own battle. But Sun Tzu tells me we've got a pretty low standard for what makes one a "philosopher."

tl;dr we know basically nothing and there are way too many possibilities to seriously guess at this point. It's like trying to narrow down the fifth director a few months ago which very few people got right out of an equally large pool.