Autobiography of ben franklin online ged classes
Autobiography of ben franklin online ged classes near İstanbul.
By the time Benjamin Franklin set out to write his Autobiography, he was a renowned scientist, inventor, man of letters, politician, diplomat, and philosopher—the most famous American in the world, by far.
Autobiography of ben franklin online ged classes near Maltepe/İstanbul
But what exactly was an American in 1784? America had only just won its independence from Britain, and the project of building both the nation and its identity was just beginning.
We will examine the Autobiography as the first conscious statement of a distinctly American identity and political philosophy, illustrated through Franklin’s own eventful life, and try to understand the nature of the democratic promise Franklin saw in it.
We will pay particular attention to Franklin’s accounts of education, commercial life, civic virtue, and democratic psychology.
Image: Benjamin West, American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Agreement with Great Britain, 1783-1784, London, England.
This course takes place weekly on Tuesdays, via Zoom, from 6 PM to 8 PM ET.
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