Benjamin Franklin was in his early twenties when he embarked on a Â
bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection,"
intending to master the virtues of temperance, silence, order,
resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation,
cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. He soon gave up
on perfection but continued to believe that these virtues, coupled
with a generous heart and a bemused acceptance of human frailty,
laid the foundation for not only a good life but also a workable
society.Writer and visual artist Teresa Jordan wondered if
Franklin's perhaps antiquated notions of virtue might offer
guidance to a nation increasingly divided by angry righteousness.
She decided to try to live his list for a year, focusing on each
virtue for a week at a time and taking weekends off to attend to
the seven deadly sins.The journal she kept became this collection
of beautifully illustrated essays, weaving personal anecdotes with
the views of theologians, philosophers, ethicists, evolutionary
biologists, and a whole range of scholars and scientists within the
emerging field of consciousness studies. Though she claims to never
have aspired to moral perfection, she was still surprised, as was
Benjamin Franklin before her, Â to find myself so much fuller of
faults than I had imagined."Teresa Jordan offers a wry and intimate
journey into a year in midlife devoted to the challenge of trying
to live authentically. Through her explorations, we come to
understand the ethics of time, the importance of mindfulness, and
the profound societal cost of our contemporary epidemic of
distraction.
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