Nietzsche’s Master and Slave Morality: A Critical Examination

Nietzsche’s Master and Slave Morality: A Critical Examination

Friedrich Nietzsche believed that Christianity, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, democracy and the equal coexistence in power and strength of humans was leading to society’s decay and the rampant acceptance of slave morality. Nietzsche was an advocate of master morality, in which case a strong, ruling class would dominate in a society over the masses in order for humankind to flourish. There have been claims made that the idea of master morality was what inspired Hitler and his Nazi regime, but arguments can be made, using themes from Beyond Good and Evil, that Nietzsche in no way was…