The Search for Moral Perfection: Unattainable and Irrefutable.

The Search for Moral Perfection: Unattainable and Irrefutable.

                Benjamin Franklin writes his plan for attaining moral perfection with great expectations, although I believe that perfection cannot be achieved by human beings, besides Jesus Christ, though, that should not stop us from seeking it and improving our characters.  Steadfastness is the key word for

• Patience:  is the ability to allow or endure delay, difficulty, or distress without getting frustrated. In a more spiritual way, Patience is the peaceful resistance based on the certainty that God is in control.
• Kindness: An act of kindness is a natural gesture of care towards someone or something. Kind words and deeds come from a position of compassion. Acts of kindness are acts of love showing that you truly care.
• Goodness: Doing what is morally right and having integrity and good intentions in your actions.
• Faithfulness: is being loyal and constant in your beliefs and to the people that rely on you.
• Self-Control: is the ability to control your actions, desires and emotions in order to achieve a set goal.
• Justice: Give fair and equal treatment to all guided by righteousness.
• Humility: Put others before yourself and not think of yourself higher than you ought to.  
• Love: The most important of all, master of all virtues, love requires a sacrificial life and constantly seeking all the other virtues.
• Joy: Having delight in happiness and being satisfied in all circumstances.
• Peace: Seeking for tranquility and order and avoiding strife and conflict.

                Some of his virtues overlap with mine such as justice and humility, although, the virtues I chose as more relevant to our search for perfection, are interrelated within themselves.  Self-control requires patience, there cannot be justice without goodness or faithfulness, and humility and kindness should walk together.  I also found self-control to be somewhat close to the Franklin’s definition of moderation, although, self-control does not always requires moderation, such as, you can be radical and extreme in your love for others or holding back an addiction as examples.

                About love, love should be the cornerstone of every single virtue. If anything is done without love, there is no greatness in it, no matter how right or moral or helpful it might be.