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Last week, private business school Alliant University unveiled a 15-foot replica of the "Statue of Responsibility" - a concept championed by the late famed psychologist and former Alliant professor Dr. Viktor Frankl.
Frankl's vision for a 305-foot statue of two hands clasped at the wrists, representing "someone in a helping position and reaching to offer assistance," according to creator Gary Lee Price, is yet to be realized, but the Alliant replica is the first erected in California. Frankl wished the statue to be erected on the West Coast and be a counterpoint to New York's Statue of Liberty. In his 1946 best seller "Man's Search for Meaning," Frankl pondered responsibility's importance to individual liberty, writing: " Ôfreedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in...