Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783)
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D'Alembert as educator
What was exemplary in D'Alembert's life?
- What can a reader learn from and through the life experience D'Alembert 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?
D'Alembert's ideas and their formative power
- What are the key concepts, the ideas that D'Alembert developed in his work?
- What was the formative power these concepts offered D'Alembert'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?
