Jm thompson robespierre biography

"If the existence of God and the immortality of the soul were mere dreams, they would still be the finest creations of the spirit of man."

concise explanation of robespierre as a man beyond his time, a puritan who essentially believed the 'right' things regarding human equality but wrapped them in religious notions that others in the revolutionary circles found too disagreeable.

Yes, he arguably went mad. Yes, killing people is wrong. What was Robespierre trying to achieve in all of that?

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A Republic of Virtue, where justice and the people's justice was built upon the fundamental rights of man. Robespierre believed that science had half-progressed the world, but man had not mastered the new passions of the world.

Immorality formed despotism, immorality born from man's disconnection from his Truth [liberte, egalite, fraternite].

interesting to critique the lens on which we understand [in the anglosphere] the french revolution, as r