Positivism
Current inspired by Auguste Comte that trusts science and reason to organize society, defending order, progress, and technical administration guided by knowledge in place of metaphysics and tradition.
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Current inspired by Auguste Comte that trusts science and reason to organize society, defending order, progress, and technical administration guided by knowledge in place of metaphysics and tradition.
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I want a society ruled by order and progress, run by technicians who replace tradition and metaphysics with science.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 75% of the 253 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

A French philosopher, Comte founded positivism and sociology, holding that science should organize society toward order and progress, with strong influence on republican and technocratic thought.
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