Author(s)

Abdollah Rasekhi

Department of Law and Political Science, Takestan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Takestan, Iran.

Various factors are influencing the creation of cognition so that “Mannheim” refers to economic interests and the insight of groups and social classes, “Weber” to the economic system and the in- terests, and also “Foucault” in his theory of power-knowledge refers to the power. Among the above factors, the power can have the greatest influence on the creation of cognition. So for “Foucault”, the power can lead to the development of knowledge through structures, institutions and discourses. On the other hand, the knowledge as a complement to the power can maintain and expand this latter. But it should be noted that the Knowledge itself can also cause cognition in people by giving them awareness and understanding about things. It seems therefore that cognition is also affected by Power. In this article, we will try to assess a cognition created by the correlations of Power and in the meantime try to learn about other factors that influence the creation of cognition. Hence, this article can help considerably to revise the foundations of Epistemology, as well as to present the specifications of the probable future ideas all in reviewing and reconstructing the sociology routes and appropriate use of present and past experiences and cognitive capacities.

Cognition, Power Knowledge, Interests, Instrumental Wisdom

Rasekhi, A. (2016) The Study of Factors Affecting the Creation of Cognition Based on Power-Knowledge Point of View. Open Journal of Philosophy, 6, 36-41. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2016.61004.