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Conservative thinking and the french revolution

Authors :
Rodrigo Dantas de Medeiros
Source :
Revista Sem Aspas, Vol 5, Iss 0, Pp 16-37 (2016)
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Universidade Estadual Paulista, 2016.

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze three great exponents of European conservative thought, and it’s positioning before the French Revolution. Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859). The French Revolution inaugurated a new phase in the history of humanity, raising the banner of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. However, in the portico of this Revolution was present the guillotine, and, in the midst of the revolutionary whirlwind that marked France, there was also the Kingdom of Terror, whose main character was the lawyer of Arras, Maxilimien de Robespierre, causing the French Revolution Was transformed into a Total Revolution, reaching all instances, whether civil, religious or administrative.

Details

Language :
Portuguese
ISSN :
2238359X and 23584238
Volume :
5
Issue :
0
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Revista Sem Aspas
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.5766fc0c4782415dae6213f8756293ed
Document Type :
article