Master morality is so named because it was created by the ruling class, the distinguished, the aristocrats, and it essentially considers strength, power, and bravery to be "good." The "good" was created out of an affirmation and pride of their power and honor. Additional attributes of those bearing the stamp of master morality are having a hard heart, being egotistical, intolerant and of distinguished origin, as well as emerging from a life of solitude. Those deemed as "bad" by the "great men" are those who belong to the lower class, who are characteristically common and mediocre in the eyes of the ruling class.
             Conversely, slave morality, represents the masses and herds, in other words, the tainted and mediocre stratosphere of Nietzschean society. It is so called because it is the lower class that created this morality system. This system considered kindness, pity, compassion, and peace as the "good." Instead of being a product of affirmation, however, the distinction between "good" and "evil" is made out of a sense of revenge against the strength of the upper class. Naturally, those deemed as "evil" are those people who belong to the upper class, who are considered characteristically cruel, strange, and dangerous.
             Nietzsche, believed that Christianity, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, democracy and the subsequent equal coexistence in power and strength of humans was leading to society's decay and the rampant unnatural acceptance of slave morality. He asserted that humanity must rise "beyond good and evil" and regain respect for nobility and power if they were to excel. Nietzsche wanted a social system with a "leader type", a genuinely superior ruling class, with slaves as its basis, at the opposite social extreme. Throughout Nietzsche's work Beyond Good and Evil the reader discovers how the different themes apply to his concept of either master or slave morality.
             Nietzsche was an atheist, believing that Christi...