Empowerment and Strengthening

In some of its more dramatic manifestations, Empowerment is easy to conceive dualistically, i. e. as a transition from an absence to a presence, e. g. Martin Luther King inspiring the taking of a previously forbidden seat, or the instituting of a right to vote.  However, some of those inspired by JFK to set imaginative goals, i. e. by his goal of a Moon-landing, or to magnanimity, i. e. by his Peace Corps initiative, are already in circumstances plentitude.  These examples demonstrate that Empowerment is fundamentally constituted by an increase in Power, of which the antecedent condition of no power is a special case, i. e. it fundamentally spans a condition of lesser, to one of greater, strength.