POLS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Animal, Owo
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Biology he is called "a social animal: the beast of prey"s nature leads him to live alone, or to combine in hunting packs with his mate, though smaller beasts of prey, being weak; the. "social animal" not living on flesh but man has departed from this wholesome rule prefers company, feeding together, to loneliness. If another comes near him, the beast of prey growls and snarls over his food; the social animal grazes in friendly contact with his fellows. In the reality, the need of man for society is shown that human nature does not rise, develop, become beautiful, in isolation. Communication itself is a product of the social impulse, the ability to interact with others. Emotion may offer no pleasure except when it flows outwards to someone else or others: without this, it just induces the most intense kind of suffering, and is a constant source of misery.
