Lynn hunt argues that what allowed eighteenth-century men


Lynn Hunt argues that what allowed eighteenth-century men to imagine others who wre quite different from the themselves as equals or rather what ecentually facilitated this ability to imagine was emotional appeal. Emotional appeal or empathy ( the ability toput oneself into someones else's shoes) has the ability to breakdown the worst and most strongly held prejudices. Hunt says that the way empathy spread throughout society was through writing and literacy. In particular, reading novels, especially those that showed the interior lives of their characters allowed people from different backgrounds, genders, and classes to connect with each other ( or rather allowed wealthy men and women to connect and see poorer people, like thier servants, as people with the same feelings and emotions and desires as themselves). Does this argument mean that societies that are illiterate and do not produce novels are unable to develop empathy in short ? are human rights available only for those societies that have developed writing and reading practices ? Explain and provide examples

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