RE: Does the Great Man approach to history still have use?
December 6, 2023 at 5:52 am
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2023 at 5:52 am by FrustratedFool.)
Was he though?
Is not history made as much by exceptional people as it is by economics, disease, random chance, and general social trends?
I mean, it does seem somewhat intuitive to say the world would look very different without Newton, Jesus, Hitler, Lenin, Shakespeare, Darwin, and so on.
Is not history made as much by exceptional people as it is by economics, disease, random chance, and general social trends?
I mean, it does seem somewhat intuitive to say the world would look very different without Newton, Jesus, Hitler, Lenin, Shakespeare, Darwin, and so on.
