Nietzsche distinguishes two classes: that of the lords and that of the slaves. The class of the gentlemen in turn is composed of two castes: the warrior and the priestly, which they value in an aristocratic or priestly manner. Thus, the second derives from the first and becomes its antithesis, since both start from different presuppositions: the caste of warriors practices the virtues of the body; the priestly caste is defined by impotence and invents the spirit.
Both castes are rivals. From this rivalry there is a leap from a morality of lords, to a slave morality, since priests mobilize slaves (weak, sick) against warriors (ruling class). This mobilization is possible by inverting the aristocratic values, creating a slave moral (with the Jews begins the moral of the slaves) inherited and assumed by Christianity. Only then does the priest triumph over the warrior.
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What Nietzsche is going to propose is a new perspective on morality. European morality (which Nietzsche identifies with Christian morality), is a denial of instincts and life, is based on the fear of this life and the consequent invention of "another life", which is a life after death that the soul will live liberated from everything that is supposed to be negative and that is linked to the body and the earthly. The Judeo-Christian morality, denial of life, is what has prevailed in the West for twenty centuries and has penetrated all culture. All these values present in all manifestations of Western culture are going to be analyzed and criticized by Nietzsche who is going to propose a different perspective, a perspective that is an affirmation of `this life 'and its fundamental strength, which is the will to power, may it be an eternal ‘yes’ to life without excluding