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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.
Political topics
Leans further toward religious than 84% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, it sits close to 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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A bilingual presidential republic, Cameroon has been ruled by Paul Biya since 1982, with centralized power, a separatist war in the Anglophone regions, a Boko Haram threat in the north and an oil and cocoa economy.
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Established in 1542, the kingdom was ruled in personal union by the English and later British Crown, with administration in Dublin. The Catholic majority faced penal laws and political exclusion; legislative union with Great Britain ended the kingdom in 1800.
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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.
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.
Centrist branch that combines economic moderation and institutional respect with social conservatism, valuing family, religion, order, and gradual change without joining the authoritarian right or populist radicalism.
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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.
Roman imperial tradition that, from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Justinian, concentrates army, law and administration in the ruler while preserving institutions, popular provisioning and sovereignty over a diverse empire.
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.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist31%