Four ethics: a look from and beyond Nietzsche

Abstract

Supporting Nietzsche, when possible, and other authors, when necessary, this text addresses ―taking as a basis, the three transformations of the spirit enunciated by Nietzsche at the beginning of the Zarathustra, and the notion of the will to power― the possibility of infer four ethics, from the point of view of power: an obedience ethic oriented towards obedience, an ethics of resistance oriented towards rebellion, an ethic of survival oriented towards domination, and an ethics of survival oriented toward empowerment. The purpose of this paper is to expose the inconvenience of the first three ethics for an adequate exercise of democracy, and to propose, instead, the relevance of an ethic of empowerment.