Positive Perspectives

#14 - The Great Man Theory of History


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  • Plutarch, Will & Ariel Durant, Charlemagne, and the Great Man Theory.
  • What is Greatness?
  • Can History be Quantified in Narratives?
  • Moral Assumptions and Interpretations.
  • The Historian’s Methodology.

In this episode Jacob and Brandon analyze the Great Man Theory as proposed by Thomas Carlyle.

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