In the present work it is made up of five parts. The first is dedicated to presenting the problem of the exercise of freedom and the consequences that it entails both in the republican and in the liberal model and, of course, it’s different variants. The second part works on the importance of promoting civic values ​​in republicanism, as well as the counterproductive consequences. The third part problematizes if a liberal model can also arrive at a more cooperative and participative position. A distinction is made between psychological egoism (EP), ethical egoism (EE) and rational egoism (ER), to analyze which of the latter fits the liberal model. Finally, in the last part, it is proposed that a cooperative version from a liberal perspective is based, following Nozick, on the «ethical push» and the search to make our lives meaningful. Our main hypothesis is that ethical motivatio...

The present work is composed of three parts. The first is dedicated to presenting an approach to the distinction between ethics and morals. The second part works on the importance of concepts such as "moral basis", "search for value" and "moral sensitivity" developed by Nozick (1981). The third section presents the relevance of the ethical commitment to the exercise of citizenship based on Nozick's approaches to the “ethical push” and in the search to make our life meaningful. The main hypothesis of this study is that there is a continuity between ethical motivation, ethical commitment and the democratic exercise of citizenship.