Project Gutenberg 2004-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 124 Wallas, Graham 1858 1932 Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Reading ease score: 48.5 (College-level). Difficult to read. Produced by Distributed Proofreaders Europe; Jon Ingram "Human Nature in Politics" by Graham Wallas is a scholarly exploration of the intersection between psychology and political behavior, composed in the early 20th century. The work critiques contemporary political thought for its neglect of human nature, arguing that understanding political instincts is vital to comprehending and improving democratic systems. The opening of the text sets out Wallas' intentions and acknowledges the intellectual debt he owes to early psychological thinkers. He highlights the distinction between rational political reasoning and the more primal, instinctual nature of human behavior that influences political actions. Through a detailed preface and introduction, Wallas discusses the historical context of democratic governance, the challenges faced by representative democracy, and the inadequacies in current political sciences that fail to account for the emotional and irrational factors at play within politics. This scholarly discourse paves the way for a deeper analysis throughout the work, suggesting that a more nuanced understanding of human impulses could lead to the advancement of democratic processes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Political ethics Politics, Practical JF Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Politics 559122 554415 2024-10-05T10:35:44.803214 2023-10-05T10:06:23.323486 text/html text/html 557432 2021-01-26T16:59:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 198092 2021-01-26T16:59:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 277556 2024-10-05T10:35:55.743607 application/epub+zip 286611 2024-10-05T10:35:48.456146 application/epub+zip 275429 2024-10-05T10:35:46.978151 application/epub+zip 568165 2024-10-05T10:36:00.903617 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 545024 2024-10-05T10:35:54.673631 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 463185 2022-09-06T04:14:58.218368 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 477980 477942 2024-10-05T10:35:43.677165 2023-10-05T10:06:22.201474 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 479238 2020-12-26T00:55:03 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 178256 2020-12-26T00:55:03 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 479237 2020-12-26T00:55:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 178069 2020-12-26T00:55:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21290 2024-10-05T10:36:01.202603 application/rdf+xml 14569 2024-10-05T10:35:47.588243 image/jpeg 3960 2024-10-05T10:35:47.281153 image/jpeg 269785 2024-10-05T10:35:44.852182 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia