Self-realization Adler defined as freedom from external coercion, political and economic freedom, etc.

His next step, in "Inventing Civilization," stresses the idea that "for what must have been the first time, a species was altering its behavior independent of external coercions."

Vector must have thought he was saving her life-repaying his debt to her by freeing her from external coercion.

Thus in (162) one gets the impression of a person laughing against his own will, because of some external coercion.

A society freed from all external coercion, liberated from all restraints except those suggested by the natural goodness of man, seemed to some people a real possibility.

The question really is this: how does external coercion and imposed altruism become internal self-control and restraint?

In one overview, Mortimer Adler defines self-realization as freedom from external coercion, including cultural expectations, political and economic freedom, etc.

No speaker may be prevented, by internal or external coercion, from exercising his rights as laid down in (1) and (2)

Self-realization is freedom from external coercion, political and economic freedom, etc. (See Self-determination in politics.)

It supposes the liberty of the individual as cause, that acts without external coercion, through a process of socialization.