From Autono-Mine to Autono-Yours: Relational Cognition

Abstract

Current styles and ways of thinking that boast of paradigm shifts have failed to pull up the anchors of Cartesianism and the religious Mass celebrated to offer the certainty of the object. No matter what its shape, the epistemological fetish that arises from objectivity and subjectivity has preserved an obscurantism against the possibility of understanding the relationship as the foundation of knowledge. This chapter aims to understand “relationship” as the centralizing concept when we explain the process of knowing and emerging strategies in shaping organizations. From this perspective, it is no longer possible to speak of autonomy, because others are necessary to make it happen (i.e., we necessarily must speak of an epistemology for co-autonomy or autonomy-yours).