Concept
Great man theory
Overview
theory that history is shaped primarily by extraordinary individuals
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Philosophers who discussed Great man theory
Related ideas
- Migration Period
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- History
- Yale University Press
- French Revolution
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Thomas Carlyle
- Hero
- Sidney Hook
- Isaac Newton
- War and Peace
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Leo Tolstoy
- Muhammad
- Max Weber
- Oswald Spengler
- Herbert Spencer
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Jacob Burckhardt
- William Shakespeare
- Blaise Pascal
- Historical materialism
- Calculus
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of history.