Was he the perfect example of a benevolent dictator? Also

>>1945375
>Benevolent

Sure purged a lot of people to be called benevolent. Enlightened would be a better term.

>benevolent
Competent, yes, but...

>>1945375

>benevolent
>dictator

Pick one, nigga

>>1947384
>benevolent
>any government
tricky question

>>1945375
>Also fuck Diocletian


Stay mad.

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>>1945375
In modern era, Lee Kuan Yew fits the bill

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>>1945385
Purging traitorous scum is a good thing

>>1947571

The human being is an unequal creature, this is a fact. All great religions, all great movements, all great political ideologies say "Let us make the human being as equal as possible". In fact he is not equal, never will be


How can someone be so based?

He had that autistic hatred about people fucking people who weren't their spouse, but he was breddy gud

Caesar was more benevolent than Augustus. Arguably less competent as an administrator though.

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>>1945375
I wouldn't say benevolent is the best word to describe Augustus, the whole ridding the Rome of degeneracy like adultery and etc.
Was he an effective ruler? Certainly. Augustus wasn't necessarily a genius like Julius but he was very effective at resolving issues as they came up and truly did try to make Rome better

>>1945375
>A benevolent dictatorship is a theoretical form of government in which an authoritarian leader exercises absolute political power over the state but does so for the benefit of the population as a whole.
I don't know about it. His work makes it look like he cared more about the state than the population. He was more like a patriotic and extremely competent dictator who understood the need to keep plebs happy than a truly benevolent one.