Introduction
There are different approaches towards issues concerning leadership. Among them are the Iliad and the scientific Structures of scientific revolution. The Iliad is a generally authored epic poem. It is stipulated to be written by a long time lived man whose name was Homer. The poem is dated to have been set during the Trojan War (Kuhn 1996). In that case it tries to show a recount of the battles and the activities that happened within the war. On the other side is the structure of scientific revolution authored in 1962. It contains information on history of science, which is written by Thomas Kuhn. It created a benchmark in philosophy, history, and the sociology of scientific knowledge. This enables it to trigger the current global assessment and reaction within and beyond the scholarly societies.
The Iliad epic poem has a theme of characterizing a leadership revolution where it narrates about different episodes in a political era. It tries to present a situation where a state is stable but it is affected by factors that could result to destabilizing. However, he states that these events happen in due cause and are affiliated to a resultant change in the future. That is, they occur in the context and generally call for some remedy. The Epic poem tries to narrate an episode of destabilization of authorities (Kuhn 1996). The author states that the destabilization occurs through battles and tragic events in authority in the Trojan War. The epic tries to identify the events of siege. It further goes towards explaining the reason why the war occurs. In this case we are able to identify the reason behind occurrence of the war narrated.
The Iliad epic then goes ahead and relates the concerns that appear as a result of any siege. This happens in efforts to try and identify the reason why the war happened. The epic poem by Homer then narrates the possibilities in the future. That is, it takes up on the events prophesied in the future. As a result of the authority instability, there are some measures that are presumed to be taken. These efforts define the necessity for some future occurrences to happen to avoid such an event that destabilizes authority. The people in authority usually put measures in place to ensure that the deviant and those who are disobedient are prevented from destabilizing the government (Kuhn 1996). The poem finally makes a complete narrative of the whole episode from destabilization, the measures taken against the destabilization and the necessity of the state of disability.
The structure of scientific revolutions implicates just as the name revolution means. This book written by Thomas S. Kuhn has a different idea altogether about the situation where crises emerge from within the work of normal science (Homer 1998). Having being triggered by the continuing global assessment, Kuhn challenged the prevailing progress in normal science. By normal science, we mean that there is a development-by-accumulation criterion. This means that the facts and theories are subjected to development and accumulation. This means that there is no rigid or concrete issue. There has to be continuity of these facts and theories. The conceptual continuity is argued for to be interrupted by the revolutionary science.
Presence of paradigms in the structure of scientific revolution is evident. The paradigms are as a result of the anomalies that happened during revolutions in science. That is, the new paradigms ask relatively new questions based on old data. This means that by the use of the previous paradigm, there is ability to make absolutely new regulations and designing new direction. For example, Kuhn used the Copernican Revolution and made a significant analysis (Homer 1998). His conclusions were that in the beginning, it did not offer reliable predictions of the extraterrestrial events. These events included the planetary positions. However, despite the fact that it did not give a reasonable output, it created an encouraging solution that calls for development in the future. Therefore, it is proper to say that this approach offers long terms solutions to problems facing humans.
The use of paradigms does not perfectly rhyme with the idea of the epic poem of Illiad of the necessity of having the failure in the authority in order to make a significant action against these failures. Kuhn therefore referred the core concepts of an ascending revolution as its own paradigms (Homer 1998). It is after this that he made a launch in to the use of these paradigms in the 20th century. The key idea that Kuhn invested was that it was necessary to develop new paradigms. He stated that the development of the paradigm shifts idea would have created a scenario. This scenario refers to a concoction of sociological, enthusiastic and scientific promise. Basically, the people do not just resists against the government with no reason rather; it is when the government fails to listen to their grievances. For instance, during campaigns those vying for various positions make huge promises but when it comes the time of execution they do very little raising concerns. It is also important to note that no government is perfect, they all have their demerits but what matters most is how they address people’s problems. Governments which soberly solves emerging issues and shows commitment normally experiences less revolt and resistance.
Conclusively, With reference to the different ideas from the two ways by which the problems can be addressed, there is a concrete solution towards comprehending humanity. The logical addressing of issues in paradigms has encouraged humanism. The efforts to develop new scientific solutions happen to rhyme with the normal performance of a human being. There is realistic humanism in the hub of science. In the first approach, there are efforts to address issues of leadership. In the second approach, there is evident effort to develop science. It therefore comes out that the nature of human beings is out in search of an effective and necessary solution to problems. This is because every leader would always wish to be successful and represent his or her people best. It is also evident that success in leadership is not measured by the amount of wealth that one acquired while in power rather it is how well has that person solved the problems that the society face. If governments wish to be successful and less resistance then they must seek the scientific solutions. In nations where there are rebels battling against the government there is poor development. Great and visionary leaders prioritize the problems of the people and always put interest of the people they represent before their with a clear understanding that power belongs to the people.
References
Homer, Rees, R., & Butler, S. (1998). The Illiad. San Bruno, CA: Audio Literature.
Kuhn, T. S. (1996). The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
