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who is most influential in Western Culture?

Western culture are luckier then Chinese.

It's very not easy to find the most influential one in Chinese Culture. As Chinese Culture had been broken by the Confucians, and many of the ancient thoughts were willfully destroyed, so the Chinese thoughts were shattered; though we can piece it up with the insight from Zhuang Zi the ancient thinker, however, the thoughts are not systematic.

Western Culture was more lucky. We can trace the thoughts back to Ancient Egypt, and then Greece.

Most influential were Jesus.

Jesus was a heavily covered philosopher,  He was covered by the religious doctrines. But if we uncover all the  layers, we can see a system which is the ideal of the modern world.