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Thomas More

English statesman and author of Utopia, 1478 to 1535

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Imagined an island society with shared property in Utopia, yet as Lord Chancellor persecuted Protestants. He was executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII as head of the Church.

Thomas More sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly religious on religion, strongly state-led on economy and strongly traditional on culture.

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Where Thomas More sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Thomas More

IntegralismA Catholic view that political authority should serve the Church's spiritual aims.95%Social conservatismDefends the traditional family, religion and moral norms in law and society.94%Christian democracyBlends Christian social teaching, a social market economy and European cooperation.92%Post-liberalismArgues that liberalism has eroded community, family and shared purpose, and looks to…92%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.