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根据富兰克林,一切都可以解释逻辑上或通过科学调查。他着手证明这在许多方面,最著名的是他的风筝实验。富兰克林决心区分闪电只是电力,不是上帝的忿怒的一种形式。他成功地在放风筝的时候这样做在一个雷电交加的暴风雨,证明“同样的带电物质与闪电之间完全展示。”(富兰克林,43)。清教徒认为发生的每一件小事是由上帝所做的。当灾难发生时,他们将这归因于上帝的全能的控制。玛丽·罗兰森清教徒被印第安人俘虏的女人,看到她灾害作为普罗维登斯,神的干预。富兰克林,然而,承认普罗维登斯的想法,但没有把它应用到日常生活中,说“一个�¦普罗维登斯,或守护天使,保护我,穿过了青年的危险,危险情况我有时”(富兰克林,29)。
清教徒和富兰克林认为人们应该共享良性一生。富兰克林试图实现道德完美的生活“�¦没有犯任何错在任何时间”(富兰克林,32)。他认为自己应该为他或她的份上,不要成为义人,说它是“所有人的利益良性那些希望会幸福”(富兰克林,35)。富兰克林希望是好的不荣耀神,而是更好的自己的个人利益。然后他创建了一个列表的十三美德:节制,沉默,秩序,分辨率,节俭,工业、真诚、正义、节制、干净整洁、宁静,纯洁,和谦虚。后达到完美掌握每个技能一次。富兰克林,尽管没有到达完美的,“一个�¦更好和更快乐的人,否则我应该如果我没有尝试它”(富兰克林,34)。清教徒认为男人应该努力成为最好的他们,并尝试生活的道德准则。富兰克林的十三美德,谦虚可能是最重要的。在所有他们所做的,清教徒希望模仿耶稣。约翰·戴恩认为他没有神,因为他“�¦不能事奉神,我应该“(丹麦人,11)。认为他没有模仿耶稣的生活方式是如此无法忍受,它驱使他考虑自杀。通过圣经经文玛丽罗兰森寻求安慰,她将它们应用到日常斗争作为印度的俘虏。她忘记了安息日时,她也认为她该去死,说“这是据我看到正义与上帝是切断我生命的线程”(·罗兰森15)。戴恩和罗兰森相信他们都未能归荣耀与神,和他们的罪重到死是一个合理的惩罚。
澳洲阿德莱德大学论文代写:科学调查
According to Franklin, everything could be explained logically or through scientific inquiries. He set out to prove this in numerous ways; perhaps the most famous is his kite experiment. Franklin was determined to distinguish that lightening was merely electricity, not a form of God’s wrath. He successfully did so by flying a kite in an electrical storm, proving the “Sameness of the Electric Matter with that of Lightning completely demonstrated.” (Franklin, 43). The Puritans thought every little thing that occurred was by God’s doing. When a disaster struck, they attributed it to God’s all-powerful control. Mary Rowlandson, a Puritan woman who had been captured by Indians, saw her disasters as providence, an intervention by God himself. Franklin did, however, acknowledge the idea of providence but did not apply it to everyday life, saying “â�¦ rovidence, or some guardian angel, preserved me, thro’ this dangerous time of youth, and the hazardous situations I was sometimes in” (Franklin, 29).
The Puritans and Franklin shared the belief that people should be virtuous throughout life. Franklin attempted to achieve moral perfection by living “â�¦without committing any fault at any time” (Franklin, 32). He thought one should be virtuous for his or her own sake, not to become righteous, stating it is “everyone’s interest to be virtuous who wish’d to be happy” (Franklin, 35). Franklin wished to be good not to glorify God, but rather to better himself for personal gain. He then created a list of thirteen virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. Perfection was to be achieved after mastering each skill one at a time. Franklin, though never arriving at perfection, was “â�¦a better and happier man that I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it” (Franklin, 34). Puritans agreed that men should strive to be the best they could be, and attempt to live by a moral code of sorts. Out of Franklin’s thirteen virtues, humility was perhaps the most important. In all they did, Puritans wished to imitate Jesus. John Dane thought he had failed God because he “â�¦could not serve God as I should” (Dane, 11). The thought that he had failed to imitate Jesus’ way of life was so unbearable, it drove him to contemplate suicide. Mary Rowlandson sought comfort through bible scriptures, applying them to her day-to-day struggle as an Indian captive. When she forgot a Sabbath, she too thought she deserved to die, saying “it was easie for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life” (Rowlandson, 15). Both Dane and Rowlandson believed they had fallen short of glorifying God, and their sins were heavy enough that death was a reasonable punishment. |
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