The transformation of power in contemporary western thought
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30907/jj.v0i58.440Abstract
Abstract: In accordance with contemporary Western thinking, power is an organized force with a high ability to achieve stability and social security because it possesses tools based on rational organization, which helps it to control the behavior of the individual and society and prevent them from practicing the processes of exclusion and discrimination against others in pursuit of their interests and needs. Vision The philosophers and thinkers of the theory of social contract can consolidate it, which changed the form and nature of power from the traditional heritage to the constructionWhich has contributed to the development and development of civil society - Western political, and despite the success of this experiment, especially after the guarantee and protection of human rights and freedoms in accordance with constitutional and legal frameworks, but the process of transformation of power in the globalization of democracy deviated from the natural course of development and lost its strength and balance because of hegemony And the influence of economic elites on political action, which reflected negatively on the intellectual and political structure of liberal democracy.