The Rationalists

1.) The rationalists wanted to explain the achieve of life and explain natural through science.Instead of building a new religion they built a body of ideas that didn't revolve around a church. Though it was faith of science. An example that is going on to day of the puritans thought is total depravity, that everyone was born to sin so everyone is born to die. Examples of rationalist is that scientist today are still believing that the way of life is based upon math and science so when you age you are becoming closer and closer to death.





3.) Because relied upon himself and his own beliefs of knowing that he is was not perfect and that he wanted to work on it to arrive at perfection. Example from text; Because we can have any dependence on a steady uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefor contrived the following method of creating virtues to arrive at moral perfection.







4.)

• 1. unselfishness-fell free to give out/away something of yours.
• 2.wisdom-share your smartness
• 3.fairness-treat all the same.
• 4.attention-focus upon what you think is important.
• 5.forgiveness-no one is perfect, you can forgive but maybe wont forget.
• 6.health-take care of the body and mind.
• 7.responsibility-take responsibility for all of your actions.
• 8.self-confidence-comes from an attitude where you "promise yourself, no matter how difficult the problem life throws at you go for it."
• 9.self-respect-be gentle with your mind and body.
• 10.thankfulness-thank god every day for letting you see another day.
• 11.truthfulness-don't lie among yourself nor to others.
• 12.fortitude- ability to confront
• 13.encouragement-encourage others to do good even if its not returned!

I think that you can live up to moral perfection by making up virtues. If you do all of these things each and every day maybe even more then its a good chance that every thing in life that you ever wanted could actually come to you.Making virtues aren't to bad. They don't only help you at achieving moral perfection but also at being a better human being.