ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Nietzsche's reflections on the relation between ethical values and life and will to power. It then examines the psychological role of drives by focusing on a subset of valuable ones, the virtues, and by showing how those virtues can be ordered so as to augment power in a wide variety of different healthy lives. All naturalism in morality, that is all healthy morality, is dominated by an instinct of life - some commandment of life is fulfilled through a certain canon of "shall" and "shall not", some hindrance and hostile element on life's road is thereby removed. Finally, the chapter discusses Nietzsche's troubling hierarchical views about social and political organization. In their idiosyncrasy, peculiarity and arbitrariness, social conventions and mores display in an obvious way the perspectivity that characterizes all evaluation, and so, too, the evaluation found in ethics and morality, that is, the particular ethical evaluation found in the herd.
