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• Title: Virtuous Victims of an Enlightenment Paradox (Critical Essay)
• Author : Nebula
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 329 KB

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Benjamin Franklin takes time to address two different audiences in his famous autobiography. Part One is dedicated to his son William. But the rest of the Autobiography reads much like a pocket guide for the youth of the 19th century. Franklin wrote his guide to, "benefit the young reader by showing him from my example" (FPR 46). Part Two focuses more on Franklin's "bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection" (148). Franklin's passion for passing on his neo-classical virtues was so strong that he actually wanted to write a book exclusively on the subject titled The Art of Virtue (79). He states clearly that he wished to conquer his own natural inclinations (71). It is in chapter five of The Autobiography that Franklin devises the moral skeleton of the rest of his book, that which was to benefit the young reader. By creating virtuous standards in The Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin developed a sound and palpable benchmark for the enlightened modern man. Consequently, Franklin bifurcated the spirit of man into malfunctioning myopic halves. The enlightened man favored reason, virtue, and liberty. However, it is in the proliferation of enlightenment ideals, and the insistence that reason and virtue were the only means to liberation, that the structure of modernity crumbles upon an unstable and paradoxical foundation. It is modernity's ignorance of the necessity to balance man's logical and empirical sides with one's passionate and desiring aspects.

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