ABSTRACT
The core of Nietzsche's critique of morality is his attack on the normative component of MPS: even a morality which presupposed no false descriptive theses would still be the object of Nietzsche's attack if it contained norms that benefited the lowest men while harming the highest. This chapter demonstrates that the claim is central to Nietzsche's critique and asks what Nietzsche means by higher and lower men. Morality in his pejorative sense (MPS), then, is marked by a distinctive normative agenda that is harmful to higher men; and it is because it harms higher men that Nietzsche centrally objects to MPS. One final challenge to this interpretation merits consideration. According to this objection, Nietzsche attacks MPS not because it is harmful to higher men but because MPS is: harmful to life; or anti-nature. Nietzsche objects to the normative agenda of MPS because it is harmful to the highest men.
