Nietzsche's Noble Morality

Nietzsche was a man who questioned the morality of his time. He dug deep in to what good really meant, and if there was a difference between bad and evil. He sought to look at the world by stepping back and looking at it with out the predisposition of what morality was/is. He looked at what he called slave and noble morality. He looked passed what was on the surface, and gave us many things to digest and discuss. In this paper I will discuss how Nietzsche’s writing can be seen as favoritism towards the noble morality by touching on how he believes the noble morality and slave morality came about, then I will talk about his “birds of prey and lambs” example which shows his fondness of the bird of prey, and I will end with my interpretation

He first shows the spite and anger of the lamb when he states, “‘these predatory birds are evil, and whoever is least like a predatory bird, especially anyone who is like its opposite, a lamb— shouldn’t that animal be good?’”(1,13) Here he shows again the resentment of the slave morality by the lambs looking at the bird of prey as evil and anything less is good, especially if they are a lamb. Again, this shows that the lambs find themselves hating the birds of prey and that is how they define good or evil. For the bird of prey they see the lambs in a different light: “We are not at all annoyed with these good lambs. We even love them. Nothing is tastier than a tender lamb.” (1,13) Nietzsche is effectively showing that the birds of prey realize they need the lambs. They need those slaves to do the work so that they might continue to be nobles. The nobles understand the usefulness of the lamb. If those lamb where to have the noble morality, they would consider the nobles as leaders who keep everything in line. For with out the birds of prey, the world would be overpopulated with lambs, and we would not have enough land and resources for all those

There are points in his essays where he shows that slave has forged a very unique set of skills such as cleverness, and that nobles do not posses this creativity that the slaves might have, but in the my opinion those skills, such as cleverness do not do away with the consistent obsession and passion with the noble that has completely derailed the ability of a person who has the slave morality to be able to see life in the present. Instead the slave focuses on hatred and jealousy. When really they should spend their time on bettering themselves, learning to grow with in their constraints. They should be considering the origin of what good is based on what they do, and not what the world is doing. In conclusion Nietzsche and I both side with the noble morality, and that a person should be focusing on their betterment and not on those who are doing better than them. For that will help a person grow and reach his