Nietzsche posits that today’s altruistic morality arose through a successful overturning of a previously existing system of morality in which character traits of the aristocratic and noble class were …show more content…
It was on this form, “the priestly form”, that man first became an “interesting animal”, changing our understanding of morality as we know it today. Initially, it would seem counterintuitive for a noble class to play such an essential role in the slave revolt seeing that the slave system of morality seems to be so much at odds with noble values. Nonetheless, Nietzsche never fails to make it clear to us that the priests are intended to be counted as nobles, deliberately categorizing them as the “priestly-aristocratic” class (Nietzsche 17). This apparent incongruity raises a big, burning question: How and why did the priestly nobles involve themselves in the slave revolt of morality in the first