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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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This position is 42.5 points from the median of the 257 ideology profiles in this collection.
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Byzantium's most successful general under Justinian I, he reconquered Vandal North Africa and Ostrogothic Italy, and crushed the Nika riots (532) with a massacre at the Hippodrome. Loyal to the emperor even under suspicion and humiliation, he ran a rigidly disciplined army.
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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-AnarchismAnarquismo45.6 / 100
