The Oxford dictionary of the English language reveals that the essential
definition of power as “to cause to act” was first utilized about 1305.
The essential definition as “a particularly strong faculty of body or mind, of vigor, vitality, and energy” appeared about 1440.
The two somewhat authoritarian concepts of power as
“personal or social ascendancy,” and “controlling political or economic
ascendancy or influence” did not emerge until about 1535.
Thus far, then, the complex topic of power breaks neatly
into two parts — the power of societal artifices, and the powers of the
individual.
Our species existed here long before the societal power artifices that are controlled by the relatively few.
TRY TO OBSERVE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL POWERS
A societal authoritarian power. As already established
these are usually given as “control, authority, and influence over
others,” but the nature of the “others” is never identified.
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