After reading Benjamin Franklin’s “The Autobiography (Part Two), one should definitely be able to distinguish why Franklin was considered and Enlightenment figure. This continuation of his first autobiography includes thirteen virtues; each virtue also containing a definition. These virtues were Franklin’s guidelines for a living.
The first part of the autobiography contains letters that were written to Franklin, praising his work on the autobiographies. The second letter from Mr. Benjamin Vaughan agrees that Franklin’s ideas should be used as a guideline for living. Vaughan says: “..your Biography will not merely teach self-education, but the education of a wise man“. He also praises Franklin’s “frugality, diligence and temperance
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