What are the three motivating reasons that individuals seek power in society?

Answer 1

People seek power in society to gain a healthy social standing, to develop contacts and to run society in a better way.

A more explicit set of motivating reasons that cause individuals to seek power are the floowing:

1. To achieve the collective good;

2. To seek power in the conscious pursuit of their self interest; and

3. They seek power because of unconscious motives related to deprivations in their childhood.

Answer 2

There are many answers to the question of the search by individuals to gain political power. Each individual has their own motive or set of motives in the quest for power. The three basic reasons are as follows:

1. Individuals seek power in order to achieve a collective good. They wish to protect the interests of all citizens and achieve justice for all. There are volumes of examples of this in history;

2. Power is sought in the premeditated pursuit of self interest; and

3. Individuals seek power as a means of compensating for psychological deprivations suffered during childhood.