Benjamin Franklin

When I first observed about The Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, I pictured that what he announced was ludicrous, but after arguing this item in the classroom and after reading it in several opportunities, I learnt that what Benjamin Franklin had the hope of demonstrating us (according to my very inner viewpoint) is that a human being, in order to succeed in life and to possess a faultless life, have to accomplish what he called “The Moral Perfection”. I regard that “Moral Perfection” as a state that we as human beings must arrive at – but what a big special issue is to succeed in that undertaking – In my opinion, not any person in the world is prepared to reach to that state of total perfection.

Moral Perfection is a quality completely impossible to obtain. Because we do not have a clear definition of what perfection truly is, when a person attempts to become "moral perfect", they are usually transforming into what seems to be perfect to them. No. It has to be a person who has been cultivated with such amount of virtues (such as Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, and Justice amid others) and a person who is capable of keeping together the balance between all those virtues in order not to turn into a psychorigid person.

As human beings, we have no conception of any absolute values, such as

perfection and imperfection or hot and cold. We can only perceive changes or

comparisons based on what we already know. Through experience, we can tell what is hotter or colder, but never actually tell what the absolutes are. This is a

central aspect of what makes perfection impossible to achieve. What exactly is

perfection? ...

I consider that cultivating all these virtues has pros and cons points. For instance, if you grow those virtues you can get lost in the way – you can go to the extreme without realizing it -. Another big issue is that most of us do not have the suitable disposition to acquire these virtues, so we intend to get all of them, but when we learn that it is too difficult to accomplish, we are used to giving up. But up to here we have seen only side of the coin, so we are going to deal with the positive things that we obtain if cultivating them. I think that if we attempt to get these thirteen virtues one by one and not everything at once, we could become aware of many wonderful, fantastic – and the best of all – simple things that we can gain from life. I believe that if we get all of those, we will put our minds on earth, we realize the magnificence of life and we will discover the sense of life and consequently we will turn into the best human beings never seen before around the world.

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