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Greco-Roman philosophy that teaches living according to reason and nature, accepting with serenity what lies beyond one's control, cultivating duty, self-mastery and virtue above pleasure, and recognizing a natural law common to all rational humanity.
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I want to live according to reason and duty, accepting fate with serenity, under a natural law common to all rational humanity.
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Leans further toward religious than 83% of the 243 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius ruled through continuous frontier wars and a devastating plague, wrote the Meditations on duty and self-mastery, and persecuted Christians who refused the official cult.
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A vast empire of antiquity, Rome united military power, law, and centralized administration under the emperor, expanding across three continents and bequeathing language, laws, and institutions that shaped Western civilization.
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Africa's most populous country, Nigeria is a federation split between a Muslim north, with sharia in twelve states, and a Christian south, dependent on oil and scarred by Boko Haram, and under Bola Tinubu it cut fuel subsidies.
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A dual monarchy in Central Europe, the Austro-Hungarian Empire gathered multiple nationalities under the Habsburg dynasty, combining aristocracy, imperial bureaucracy, political Catholicism, and growing nationalist tensions.
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Socrates' dialectical method, examining beliefs through rational questioning and the pursuit of virtue, distrustful of mass politics and the rhetoric of demagogues, yet respectful of the city's rule of law.
Democratic Party current born with Franklin Roosevelt that joins financial regulation, social security, public works and strong unions with civic patriotism, preserved capitalism and international leadership.
Centrism taken to its limit: it refuses any leaning on principle and seeks exact equidistance between every pole, from economics to morality, treating each political axis as a balance point to be preserved.
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Autocratic, militarized imperial order that expands territory by conquest yet governs conquered peoples through communal autonomy, administered religious tolerance and tribute, without demanding cultural assimilation from its subjects.
Nineteenth-century constitutional monarchy model in which the monarch exercises a fourth Moderating Power above the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, arbitrating conflicts and guaranteeing stability over an agrarian economy.
Ideology advocating the political unity of Muslims above national borders, around the ummah and the ideal of a caliphate, formulated by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and adopted by Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II against European colonialism.
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Techno-CommunismAnarchist31%