Man is by nature a political animal?

Question

Man is by nature a political animal?

Answer 1

I disagree.  Man fights or flees by nature.  Man's higher goal is to BECOME a political animal; to talk and negotiate for the betterment of the individual or the group on Both sides of the issue.  Peace.

Answer 2

Nope.  We basically are still primitive.  Humans have to learn to be political.

You really don't have a question.  To make it a question it needs to written such:  Is Man a political animal by nature.  People reading it have to make assumptions about just what you mean.  That's why the m in Man needs to be caps.

Answer 3

I would say yes. We are always jockeying for position.

Job status.

Dating.

s*x.

Where we live.

Etc.

Answer 4

Its true.  We are a social creature, we pretty much have to live in societies. (You can live totally on your own without relying on any other human beings but life is a lot easier if you take advantage of the services and skills that other people provide) A society requires direction and leadership, that means decision making, and how those decisions get made is politics.  Even if its done in a primitive tribal setting, its politics.  From a primitive tribe to a modern nation state, its politics.  You follow because you are a social creature, and society will punish you if you vary too far off accepted behavior--and even that is decided by politics.