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That's only half the truth. Yes, greatness is determined by the scale of the human destinies affected, but it does not have an exclusively positive connotation. Genghis Khan was not only a great reformer and unifier, but also a great conqueror and destroyer. So many personalities-Peter, Stalin, Hitler and dozens of others-have a lot of controversy around their biographies. For some, they are the messiahs of a new time and a new turn of history, for others they are just murderers shedding blood, but everyone recognizes the scale of their personalities
When applied to a person, greatness is just a subjective assessment of the actions or personality of one person by another (others). There is nothing that makes it possible to measure “greatness” objectively – therefore, there is no such thing as greatness objectively. And you can call anyone great (which happens all the time), as a result of which murderers, sadists, and schizophrenics are often considered great people.
A great person is a person who has made a great contribution to the development of humanity: in culture, politics, science, art; who has performed a feat in the name of life on earth.