A text named for this thinker parodies its own discussion of "animal fibers" by comparing Julie de Lespinasses's metaphor of a spider on a web to a cluster of bees. In that text named for this thinker, Doctor Bordeu says that "all that is, is natural" and thus homosexuality is just as acceptable as chastity. Another text named for this thinker claims that women onstage hav
A text named for this thinker parodies its own discussion of "animal fibers" by comparing Julie de Lespinasses's metaphor of a spider on a web to a cluster of bees. In that text named for this thinker, Doctor Bordeu says that "all that is, is natural" and thus homosexuality is just as acceptable as chastity. Another text named for this thinker claims that women onstage have a dangerous and immoral power over the audience, and that plays corrupt hardworking rural people. This thinker's advocacy of a theater in Geneva prompted Rousseau's Letter on Spectacles, which is addressed to this man. Diderot's major exposition of his materialist ideas was in a set of dialogues named [This Man's] (*) Dream. This thinker's best-known philosophical work praises empiricists like Bacon, Descartes, and Newton, and includes a "Figurative System of Human Knowledge," or his "tree." For 10 points, name this author of the Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia, who was also Diderot's co-editor.
A text named for this thinker parodies its own discussion of "animal fibers" by comparing Julie de Lespinasses's metaphor of a spider on a web to a cluster of bees.
Jean(-Baptiste) le Rond d'Alembert [accept Le Rêve de d'Alembert; accept D'Alembert's Dream; accept Lettre à M. D'Alembert sur les spectacles; accept Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles] 