RE: Does the Great Man approach to history still have use?
December 6, 2023 at 6:07 am
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2023 at 6:08 am by FrustratedFool.)
@Boru
Exceptional people aren't just formed by their environment, either, though. I assume you don't believe in freewill, obviously, for this argument. But even with my adherence to determinism nurture is at best half the story: nature (in terms of personal disposition, IQ, peculiar mental faculties, and so on) plays a huge role. Otherwise why didn't the same circumstances produce a million Newtons and Einsteins and Mohammeds?
I think exceptional people are both made (in part) by history, and affect history.
Exceptional people aren't just formed by their environment, either, though. I assume you don't believe in freewill, obviously, for this argument. But even with my adherence to determinism nurture is at best half the story: nature (in terms of personal disposition, IQ, peculiar mental faculties, and so on) plays a huge role. Otherwise why didn't the same circumstances produce a million Newtons and Einsteins and Mohammeds?
I think exceptional people are both made (in part) by history, and affect history.
