Who in your opinion was the most intelligent philosopher, and does that philosopher's IQ surpass that of Einstein to you?

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[Kaneki05]

Philosopher's would of had non average IQs no doubt leading them to think about what they did compared to average people who just got on with there lives. But measurements I am not sure. Also IQ has steadily been increasing overall so more younger more likely they are to surpass those of the past.
But personally I don't find philosophers smart there more in that phase of "Give a monkey a typewriter over a infinity that monkey will write something great." philosophers are people who just say random rubbish until something sticks then that one quote becomes famous. Because eventually they say something smart.
Again no doubt factually they would not be your average Joe but wouldn't see myself call them all Einstein that's for sure. Or very much not hawking's.

[jshm2]

IQ is largely irrelevant. In fact it's not even a scientific measurement of anything meaningful.

The ancient philosophers and mathematicians far outpaced the modern ones as they didn't have technology to pickup their slack.

[EllaNella]

1. IQ is a very poor measurement of anything
2. IQ is determined by a test and not what people think it should be