Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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Emerson as educator
What was exemplary in Emerson's life?
- What can a reader learn from and through the life experience Emerson had?
- What effects for good and ill may his life and work have on someone who takes him as an exemplary figure?
- What were the limiting factors constraining him?
Emerson's ideas and their formative power
- What are the key concepts, the ideas that Emerson developed in his work?
- What was the formative power these concepts offered Emerson's contemporaries? Why did they have meaning, or fail to have meaning, to others in the historical context of his time?
- What formative power do his ideas have in the historical context of our time? Of any time?
- What disabilities might his ideas impart?
