Comparing Benjamin Franklin And Poor Richard's Almanack

Benjamin Franklin is self-righteous and materialistic because he always took his ideas a step further compared to most of his academic peers. Franklin believed that the in bringing these new scientific and philosophical concept to the people, while philosophers were happy to argue with each other about humankind of nature. His leadership was appealed from his intellect and wit. In Poor Richard’s Almanack, Franklin’s aphorisms and sayings were about to make the colonists life that revealed some of the colonists imperfections. Franklin believed that common people had innate freedom and the people had the right to follow their destinies. Benjamin Franklin’s true nature is a man who is worried about society in general along with its treatment of

His 13 virtues are a great example because they show his attempt to become so called “perfect.” These 13 virtues included temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. Order, silence and frugality seemed to be most important to Franklin as they were the first and most persistent virtue that he was able to accomplish daily. With order being that he had to plan time, organize resources and society. Franklin was able to learn efficiency and time management which added to his character by making him more time efficient. Silence had to do with not getting involved in a conversation that would just anger oneself and that person simply just doesn’t need. Benjamin Franklin was able to achieve this the second most often according to the chart. Franklin learned when to keep his mouth shut and when to not. This added some self-control as he was able to control his own rage and not be a part of conversations that are only just going to hurt and upset him. Frugality has to do with saving one’s money and save it for something more important than wasting it on stuff he didn’t need. Franklin gave bread to a family when he realized he didn’t need it as much as they did. Through silence, order and frugality, Benjamin Franklin was able to build towards his moral perfection and these were key virtues that he had to accomplish first. What these virtues do for Franklin is mature him and develop him more and a human in the colonial society and become a better man in