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Nietzsche, with his grotesque exaggeration, goes much further. The strong men, the masters, regain the pure conscience of a beast of prey; monsters filled with joy, they can return from a fearful succession of murder, arson, rape and torture with the same joy in their hearts, the same contentment in their souls as if they had indulged in some student’s rag… When a man is capable of commanding, when he is by nature a “Master,” when he is violent in act and gesture, of what importance are treaties to him?… To judge morality properly, it must be replaced by two concepts borrowed from zoology: the taming of a beast and the breeding of a specific species.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi GermanyBad and Evil are completely different concepts.
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Evil in good-and-evil is used to designate precisely the person who was considered good in good-and-bad.
This person is marked by a self-assuredness. They are almost marked by the innocence (interesting choice of word) of that of a rampaging child:
"they step back into the innocence of the beast-of-prey conscience, as jubilant monsters, who perhaps walk away from a hideous succession of murder, arson, rape, torture with such high spirits and equanimity that it seems as if they have only played a student prank, convinced that for years to come the poets will again have something to sing and to praise."
Nietzsche considers some races as master races and some races as slavish…
"At the base of all these noble races one cannot fail to recognize the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast who roams about lusting after booty and victory; from time to time this hidden base needs to discharge itself, the animal must get out, must go back into the wilderness: Roman, Arab, Germanic, Japanese nobility, Homeric heroes, Scandinavian Vikings—in this need they are all alike."
… and it is precisely these races that wreaked so much havoc on the slavish races where the term "barbarian" comes from.
Similar to Rousseau, Nietzsche sees civilization as a linear decrease also because of the introduction of "morality." Unlike Rousseau, it is precisely the expansion of equality of care and compassion for the weak and downtrodden which he sees as the ultimate knock against culture/civilization.
https://www.johnathanbi.com/p/on-the-genealogy-of-morality-by-nietzsche
