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An ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius created an ethic based on virtue, social harmony, and respect for hierarchies and traditions, shaping Chinese culture, morality, and politics for millennia.
Political topics
Confucius leans further toward autocracy than 82% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Confucius stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Confucius sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 263 ideologies
Doctrine of rule by the best, which entrusts power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule, which it sees as a risk to competence.
Doctrine that grounds political order in the ruler's virtue, ritual hierarchy and filial piety, favouring bureaucratic merit and moral education over coercive law or popular participation.
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.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian29%
Athenian philosopher, Socrates created the dialectical method of questioning to examine beliefs and pursue virtue, distrusted mass politics and the rhetoric of demagogues, and was executed for corrupting the youth.
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