Journal #21 The Rationalist Point of View

The difference between the point of view of self reliance when it comes to rationalist writers and the point of view when it comes to romantic writers really is not much. Self reliance was one of Benjamin Franklins thirteen virtues i believe. The point of view from him and the point of view of romantic writers is the fact that in the society of rationalist when America was still young in certain ways, people were almost expected to be self reliant. Since they were expected to be this way within this society, they really were not rewarded at all. Rationalists were all about being happy with the good traits that you have and trying to follow them to the very end. When they did act self reliant in their society, they were respected by others and they also respected others as well. So, basically, if you do not act self reliant within the society of rationalists, you might be shunned and maybe not rewarded. In the society of Emerson and other romantic writers, this is not really the tendency that they have when it comes to self reliance. In the society filled with romantic writers, it is actually quite normal to reward people for having good habits and being self reliant. In the romantic era, people tended to try to get away from others and they also tended to try and experience nature much more than they did in the rationalist time period. So, i must admit that i actually tend to respect the idea of rewarding people for being very self reliant rather than kind of ignoring it and just assuming that all people should be extremely responsible and self reliant. Also, i do not like that point of view from the rationalist society because it just kind of seems like a bland idea when not rewarding people for anything they do well because in my opinion that would just make the society very boring.