Brutus is a somewhat "philosophical" character. He is generally regarded as a good, perhaps noble, man deeply in love with the concepts of freedom and republican government. He kills Caesar not because he does not love him, but because he loved freedom more. As Anthony says:
This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators, save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar,
He, only in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world: "This was a man!"
There was no envy in Brutus, no evil in Brutus. If he had a fault it was his idealism that could not compromise with the idea of a Caesar as dictator. It is up to you as reader to decide whether there are any other factors "clouding" his judgment.
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