Some Issues on Power Cognitive Foundation, Complex Dynamics, Social Functions.

We discuss the cognitive and pragmatic foundations of powers; the different (internal and external) kinds of power. We analyze how the power of an agent creates social "power over" the other agents and the power of influencing and controlling them; how an agent acquires new powers, and a given power becomes a different power; how a power is transferred from one agent to another one and accumulated; how co-powers require coordination and social power feedbacks on the personal one. Different form of power of influencing, like spontaneous subjection and leadership based on 'values'. How power is no longer a 'means' and becomes a motive and end. What is power 'alienation' and a power 'capital', and why the spontaneous emergent trend necessarily is towards inequality. We also stress the relationships between knowledge and communication and personal and social power.