Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 52/@comment-50.110.6.102-20150512001629/@comment-25598352-20150512043753

There /are/ options for Modern Asian philosophers, but not many are good or at all well known outside of Asia.

The Dalai Llama works, although he's explicitly a religious figure unlike most of the people in the battle. Chairman Mao is more well known as a despot than a philisophical reformer (although he was more or less that too). Emperor Showa is less well known than Admiral Yamamota out of Japanese WW2 figures, and he isn't even that well known to begin with. Ghandi's been used. Most other modern Hindu reformers are highly obscure outside of India. Guru Nanak just skirts the edge of modern and most Americans probably don't even know what Sikhism is, much less anything about its founder. In short, it's looking like either a "standard" 3 v. 3 or a 3 v. 3 v. 3 with Plato/Aristotle/Socrates against Lao Tzu, Confucius, and (hopefully) The Buddha since Sun Tzu isn't much more of a philosopher than Gen. Patton. Three modern rappers are highly debatable although Kant and Neitzche are likely. No clue on the third since "modern philosophy" is pretty broad. Kirkegaard, Camus, Marx, Locke, Rosseau, Voltaire, Heidigger and Descartes all have varying degrees of probability after that. I have no idea which one they'd go with since I can see credible arguments for and against each one.