HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Liberal Democracy, Mantra, Sisal
10 Oct 2016
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The committee of public safety would eventually come to be led by maximillian. Robespierre, a lawyer known as the incorruptible along with his ruthless lieutenant. Despite the popular demonization of him, robespierre was an idealistic and principled man with a set of core beliefs that had profound implications for and a decisive impact on the course of modern history. His views were heavily based on the ideas of later enlightenment thinker jean-jacques. Rousseau and robespierre were radical democrats in believing that political power resided in the people. They also believed in the concept of the general will (that there was a singular collective desire of the people) Go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d la(cid:449)s should (cid:272)oi(cid:374)(cid:272)ide (cid:449)ith this ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al (cid:449)ill, a(cid:374)d it (cid:449)as ro(cid:271)espie(cid:396)(cid:396)e"s sincere belief that he understood the french general will (which he argued embed that will of the nation) War and domestic opposition threatened to destroy the virtuous republic created by the revolution: radical measures were though necessary to save it.
