The problem of power rightfully belongs to the eternal questions of philosophy, from century to century actualizing reflection presenting a variety of approaches to its solution. The focus of the article is the anthropological perspective in the study of power. The purpose of the work is to consider power as a human situation conceptualized in the categories of domination and recognition. The methodology used is based on the synthesis of the existential-hermeneutical approach (focused on the identification of meanings) and the critical theory of society (the theory of rational and engaged action). Power according to the domination model is considered on the basis of the ideas of the struggle for knowledge in the philosophy of Hegel, Weber, Kozhev, Bourdieu, Foucault, Agamben, Honnet, etc. The study answers the question of "who" in the situation of power, shows the types and configurations of subjects included in the production of power (master / slave / citizen, father / leader, judge, cynic / ironic / simpleton). Based on the reference to the works of Gegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Honnet, the spheres of labor and morality are presented as the leading regions of power-domination, the conflict of models of "reification" and "recognition" of the employee, types of moral recognition, their subjective and institutional dimension are highlighted. The experience and practices of recognition, mutual recognition in the context of state research, create conditions for considering power in a moral and normative aspect. Such a view of power may indicate a possible moral progress of society in history.
