ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Autodidacticism, Miss Read, Atheism
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Franklin was attempting to create a model of american identity. The more one revises, their actions, their writing, their endeavours, eventually one tends to see a greater degree of improvement. Socrates, the unexamined life is not worth living. ". Self-consciousness (auto-didactic) causes one to teach themselves, to correct themselves, and never to forget their roots: human ingenuity is a skill that one can attain by revising and re-creating. Important terms to analyze revision, erratum, reason. Franklin"s method of writing shows imitation; suggests to his american reader that they may take him for an example and imitate and improve themselves upon him. Franklin"s idea inches towards progress, the future is one of improvement, things getting better through human ingenuity. Reading and writing to write is to learn how to create, he wanted to make america something of a permanent entity. His autobiography sustains his ideas, and even embodies his person, through the writing.
