PHILOSOPHERS from Mexico

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Mexican Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Nezahualcoyotl (1402 - 1472)

With an HPI of 65.20, Nezahualcoyotl is the most famous Mexican Philosopher.  His biography has been translated into 32 different languages on wikipedia.

Nezahualcoyotl (Classical Nahuatl: Nezahualcoyōtl [nesawalˈkojoːtɬ], ), "Howling Coyote" (April 28, 1402 – June 4, 1472) was a scholar, philosopher (tlamatini), warrior, architect, poet and ruler (tlatoani) of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian era Mexico. Unlike other high-profile Mexican figures from the century preceding the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Nezahualcoyotl was not fully Mexica; his father's people were the Acolhua, another Nahuan people settled in the eastern part of the Valley of Mexico, on the coast of Lake Texcoco. His mother, however, was the sister of Chimalpopoca, the Mexica king of Tenochtitlan. King Nezahualcoyotl is best remembered for his poetry; for his Hamlet-like biography as a dethroned prince with a victorious return, leading to the fall of Azcapotzalco and the rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance; and for leading important infrastructure projects, both in Texcoco and Tenochtitlan; and exceptional intelligence, enabling -- on the last day of his life -- the most devastating of his mind-games against Montezuma. According to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl and Juan Bautista Pomar, he had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of All" (which aligns, intriguingly, with "I Am Who I Am," whom Moses had encountered in the Eastern Hemisphere). Nezahualcoyotl built an entirely empty temple to this God, in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were permitted, while allowing the standard sacrifices to continue elsewhere.

2. Alfonso Reyes (1889 - 1959)

With an HPI of 57.61, Alfonso Reyes is the 2nd most famous Mexican Philosopher.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889 in Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of the greatest authors in the Spanish language. He served as ambassador of Mexico to Argentina and Brazil.