Nietzsche and Good & Evil

In our discussions this week in class, we talked about Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche believed that slaves or slave-like people revolted against people who saw themselves as nobles. They were people of ressentiment, or people with a sense of hostility that was directed at the nobles because they viewed themselves as good for being powerful and strong. The slavish people believed that these views the nobles had, made them evil. This came about after the revolt of the slaves. Being evil didn’t necessarily mean that the nobles were “bad” per-se, it meant that they believed that they were of higher value, almost, than the slavish people were. Take the lambs and birds of prey analogy, for instance. The birds of prey are seen as strong creatures, but in the eyes of the lambs, their strength is equivalent to evil because the lambs are being killed by the strength of the birds. The birds, however, have no idea that what they are doing is “evil”, they’re just trying to live. Can it be said, however, that the lamb could be seen as evil as well because they believe the birds of prey are evil? Assuming someone is something of an evil nature and telling people that that someone is evil seems pretty evil. It seems as if you’re trying to turn others against that thing or person, even though what they’re doing is just their way of life. I may just be confusing things way more than they actually are, but to me, this is what came from what we discussed. I’m open to a little bit of light on the subject.