Re: Parallels to and Research in Adlerian Psychology - Human Rights & Equality
Two recent reviews ("Natural, Equal, Universal" by Gordon Wood, N.Y. Times Book Review, 4/8/07, and "Sentimental Education: The Invention of Human Rights," by Joanna Burke, Harpers Magazine, May 2007) of "Inventing Human Rights: A History," by Lynn Hunt, trace the evolution of human rights, from its proclamations in America in 1776 and France in 1789, to the twentieth-century term "empathy." The author's thesis that human rights require three interlocking qualities: rights must be natural (inherent in human beings), equal (the same for everyone), and universal (applicable everywhere) echoes Adler's vision of the evolution social equality and Gemeinschaftsgefeuhl.
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