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work_aclbij4tprhstoyga4jeygwdki	Christopher S. McClure	Learning from Franklin's Mistakes: Self-Interest Rightly Understood in the Autobiography	2014	24	.pdf	application/pdf	12477	537	61	Abstract: Benjamin Franklin divides the mistakes he lists in the Autobiography into In the opening of the Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin tells his son that if he 1Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography and Other Writings, ed. he in fact gained something, despite in one way or another contravening conventional morality.4 He came to understand that the rules of virtue and the Franklin mentions five errata in the first part of the Autobiography. Franklin's brother's friend Vernon had entrusted to him (Autobiography, 35). errata, Franklin gained something from writing the Dissertation. (Autobiography, 59).18 This discovery was the most important thing Franklin quoted in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, ed. Franklin did from these errata, and really understand when moral transgression would contribute to one's true happiness and when it would lead only to By writing the Autobiography rather than the Art of Virtue, Franklin was able through the example of his own life offered as an autobiography.38 Franklin	./cache/work_aclbij4tprhstoyga4jeygwdki.pdf	./txt/work_aclbij4tprhstoyga4jeygwdki.txt