The dissertation analyzes the existing traditions of philosophical comprehension of the concept of power. During the research, two stable tendencies were discovered and conventionally called "general-conceptual" and "concrete-species".
On the basis of their comprehensive analysis, it was concluded that they can not be used as a methodological basis for realization of research of the destructivness. The content of the concepts of power received within the general-conceptual tradition, through abstracting from the insignificant and diverse, turned out either too broadly or too narrow, which respectively led to the narrowing or expansion of the scope of such notion of power. However, with the narrowing of the volume, the concept of power lost the status of the general concept. By extension, on the contrary, it became so common that other social phenomena formally fell under it, which caused a high degree of uncertainty and the need to clarify the meaning of the concepts of these phenomena and power.
The research of the destructiveness of power as a philosophical problem required the transition from a conceptual level of the study of power as a phenomenon to a constructive one. Its result should not be the concept of the power of the general or specific-type level, that is scientific definition of power or a description of specific content, but the construct, model of power, deployed on the basis the idea of power, in the complex architectonic power structure. At the same time, it was proved that the necessity of creative formation of construct of power, based on a certain idea of power, does not always exist, but only when there is a need to create and ensure the functioning of a certain social integrity, namely on the level of public relations.
In the course of the research, the mechanism of the formation of the power component was revealed both at the level of social relations and at the level of social connections. There is a stable sequence of stages of its manifestation, characteristic of both levels: the emergence of an advantage in something from one side (possession of something that may cause the need for others) and need the subject of possession from other side. This situation causes the state of freedom of the owner of the advantage and the state of dependence of the one who needs it, but does not have the opportunity to satisfy it. This way the inequality of the subjects of interaction arises, which subsequently fixes. If at the level of social relations the state of freedom and dependence of interacting subjects, their objective inequality, can generate or not a power component - relation of domination and subordination. Then at the level of the social connections, power component is essential, because there is a necessity of the formation of a general power with a clear separation of power statuses for its elements: the status of the rulers and the status of subordinates.
Author noted that power, as an integral attribute of a social integer, predominantly has an artificial source - the artificially created power that exists as powers of authority established in a certain way. Acquisition powers of authority by concrete subjects, members of the integrity, gives them the power of superiority, supremacy. It is power that rises them above all other members of this integrity. As a result the objective inequality of the members of the integrity arises, which, in contrast to the inequality in individual relations, is not a premise but the cause of the generation and existence of dominate-subordinate relations between members of the social integrity.
It was assumed that any power of a social whole, created by people for the purpose of building a social whole and maintaining public relations, as a constructive and integrative force, can’t be destructive by nature.
During the analysis Baudrillard’s and Deleuze’s simulation theories, author found that Baudrillard and Deleuze studying the same phenomenon, meanwhile, developed opposite ways for their nature of simulation theory. The theory of the idea of power and the theory of simulacrums of power as alternative theories have been used as alternative methodological foundations in the practice of philosophical reflection of a specific type of power. The reflation of the theoretical model of the state power of Ukraine, which construction is enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine, was carried out to reveal destructive aspects in it.
Key words: power, the concept of power, the construct of power, the destructiveness of power, the social integer, the idea of power, the purpose of power, subject of power, discretion, corruption, usurpation, simulation, the simulacrum of power.
