Are humans really political by nature?

Question

Politics, both macro and micro, that is, Government and our own policies within some sort of social organization, respectively.

Answer 1

People have the natural urge or will to bring some sort of structure to chaos. Because chaos will only cause insecurity, and that scares them. And on a higher level, this can be called politics.

Answer 2

People like patterns. They like organization, if people live savage they will build them selves to a civilization. having no order will cease (Look through time where groups or people come together and build a civilization)

Answer 3

even those that consider themselves antisocial are part of a sect of society. so yes is the answer to your question.-blurey

Answer 4

Philosophy studies that which Man is (and the world in which he finds himself.)

The 4th branch of philosophy is Political Science--precisely because man is political. PS comes after Ethics, because in order to put PS into action, into the field of law, it must follow Ethics. What good is an unethical law?

Answer 5

We invented government.  No other species seems to need one.  That should tell you everything.

Answer 6

Since the human species evolved to be a social creature, we must live in groups, and our intelligence compels us to organize ourselves for the greatest communal benefit.

So yes, I think we are biologically and evolutionarily political.