The Rationalists

The Rationalists and the puritains were diffrerent in many ways as the puritain thought that God controlled everything the rationalists thought that Science and their rules controlled everything for ex: in todays time most people think that they could use their brains to figure everything out because they thought that science controlled the world and that is all needed in the world to figure out things, and the purtains believed that god did everything for a reason and that it should not be questioned what god did.
In the autobiography of ben franklin he is writing to his son telling him about all the things he has did in his life and how he has turined his life around for the sake of hisself and his child ben franklin is a example of a rationalist because he thinks that he can make a mathamatical day into a day chart. the thirteen virtues are temprance,silence,order,resolution,fragality,sincerity,justice, moderation,cleaniness,tranquillity,humility.

If i could make my life better by making a list of thirteen virtues it would be to stay organized,focused, to be on time for school, be present for class everyday,get all of my work done, make a's and b's, stay away from people that are bad influences, graduate from high school, go to college, help those who need help, keep a job. i think that all thirteen of these virtues will make my life better because all of these steps are needed in daily life just to have a stable and good life.

Three examples of Reationalist from the declaration of independence are: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. this means that all men are created equal and all men have the same rights and it they cannot be taken away, they have a right to have a life and the pursuit of happiness, it means that every human being has a right to a good life, and its saying that the government and nobody else has a right to take it away because its the right of humans.
Second one is
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, meaning that once the governement trys to take away human rights it is our right to put the government to an end and set up a new one.

Third one is
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Meaning that once people start abusing people and taking advantage of people it is a our right as a human being to treminate them and find somebody better.