Entre Nietzsche y Foucault: la historia y la crítica como ética

Abstract

This text intent to show that Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of ‘critical history’ may be approached as an ethic. We understand ethic as presented by Michel Foucault in some of his works. For Foucault, ethic is a practice of freedom upon being a resistance to power. This resistance is not breaking away of power, but its exercise from the individual upon oneself. Accordingly, ethic may be presented as a criticism
of power. Thus, the critic consists precisely in resisting it, in changing the direction of the way in which one is governed. And this is the critical history of Nietzsche, the judgement concerning the metaphysical notions of the own past which affect life. Through critic history and ethic can be combined.