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An American bioethicist, Kass is the leading voice of bioconservatism, warning against genetic manipulation and human enhancement in the name of dignity, human nature, and the ethical limits of science.
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Leon Kass leans further toward biology than 93% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Technology is where Leon Kass stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Leon Kass sits practically at the catalog median.
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Branch that unites conservatism and environmental protection, defending the preservation of nature as part of the tradition and heritage to be passed on to future generations, with prudence toward change.
Aristotle's political philosophy, defending a mixed constitution of monarchical, aristocratic and popular elements to avoid both tyranny and radical democracy, reserving full citizenship for those with virtue, property and the education to deliberate.
Political tradition that values order, customs, family, and consolidated institutions, preferring gradual and prudent change over rupture, based on historical experience and skepticism toward utopias.
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Techno-SocialismRadical Left31%
A British philosopher, Scruton was one of the great contemporary conservative thinkers, defending tradition, beauty, nation, and institutions as sources of meaning and order against relativism and progressivism.
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Germany's largest federal state, Bavaria combines strong regional identity and Catholicism, historic dominance by the CSU, cutting-edge industry (BMW, Siemens), and active defense of its fiscal and cultural autonomy from Berlin.
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Formed by the secession of eleven Southern states to preserve slavery, the Confederate States combined radical state confederalism, a traditionalist and religious agrarian society, and free trade, before being defeated in the Civil War.
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