Tolstoy saw a paradigm shift taking place in how we understand history.
Category: Second Epilogue, P&V pgs. 1179-1215
Historical events are caused by the activity of all the participants.
The central problem facing historians is the discovery of the laws which govern history.
What is history?
What types of historians are there?
How did the Ancients view history?
The “great man” theory of history.
The “aim” of history fallacy
History is more than a mere list of events.
Modern historians often forget that causes and effects must be proportional.